[PATCH] mtd: cqspi: Wait for transfer completion

Jagan Teki jagan at amarulasolutions.com
Mon Nov 1 08:07:38 CET 2021


Hi Pratyush,

On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 1:23 AM Pratyush Yadav <p.yadav at ti.com> wrote:
>
> On 08/10/21 06:06PM, Jagan Teki wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 2:05 PM Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 9/15/21 10:28 AM, Pratyush Yadav wrote:
> > > > On 14/09/21 08:22PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > >> On 9/14/21 7:42 PM, Pratyush Yadav wrote:
> > > >>> On 14/09/21 05:22AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > >>>> Wait for the read/write transfer finish bit get actually cleared,
> > > >>>> this does not happen immediately on at least SoCFPGA Gen5.
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
> > > >>>> Cc: Jagan Teki <jagan at amarulasolutions.com>
> > > >>>> Cc: Vignesh R <vigneshr at ti.com>
> > > >>>> Cc: Pratyush Yadav <p.yadav at ti.com>
> > > >>>> ---
> > > >>>>    drivers/spi/cadence_qspi_apb.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
> > > >>>>    1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> diff --git a/drivers/spi/cadence_qspi_apb.c b/drivers/spi/cadence_qspi_apb.c
> > > >>>> index 429ee335db6..2cdf4c9c9f8 100644
> > > >>>> --- a/drivers/spi/cadence_qspi_apb.c
> > > >>>> +++ b/drivers/spi/cadence_qspi_apb.c
> > > >>>> @@ -858,6 +858,14 @@ cadence_qspi_apb_indirect_read_execute(struct cadence_spi_plat *plat,
> > > >>>>            writel(CQSPI_REG_INDIRECTRD_DONE,
> > > >>>>                   plat->regbase + CQSPI_REG_INDIRECTRD);
> > > >>>> +  /* Check indirect done status */
> > > >>>> +  ret = wait_for_bit_le32(plat->regbase + CQSPI_REG_INDIRECTRD,
> > > >>>> +                          CQSPI_REG_INDIRECTRD_DONE, 0, 10, 0);
> > > >>>> +  if (ret) {
> > > >>>> +          printf("Indirect read clear completion error (%i)\n", ret);
> > > >>>> +          goto failrd;
> > > >>>> +  }
> > > >>>> +
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Huh, this is strange. I would expect the bit to clear immediately since
> > > >>> it doesn't really do any operation on the flash. How long does it
> > > >>> usually take to clear? If you don't wait for it to clear does anything
> > > >>> break?
> > > >>
> > > >> Often it does clear immediately, but there were a few odd cases where it did
> > > >> not happen right away, in which case I had transfer corruption.
> > > >
> > > > By "transfer corruption" do you mean the current transfer gets corrupted
> > > > or the next one?
> > > >
> > > > We get here _after_ the transfer is completed and this bit should have
> > > > little to do with the data received. If the current transfer fails then
> > > > I suspect something else might be going wrong the this is just a symptom
> > > > of the problem.
> > >
> > > As far as I recall, the problem was triggered when using UBI on the SPI
> > > NOR, so that could very well be the next transfer.
> >
> > Any further decisions here? shall I take it or v2?
>
> I think we need more information here. I don't see why checking this bit
> would interfere with the current transfer since that is already finished
> by the time we get here. If it is the next transfer then this might just
> be a symptom and the real problem might be somewhere else.

Do you mean the bit is using on the patch is not proper for all
transfers? did you find any issues on your tests some where? please
indicate what's wrong?

Jagan.


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