[PATCH] spi: cadence-quadspi: fix potential malfunction after ~49 days uptime

Ronald Wahl rwahl at gmx.de
Tue Jan 21 19:56:02 CET 2025


On 13.12.24 07:04, Vignesh Raghavendra wrote:
> + tom and jagan

Jagan seems to be missing. Does anyone know something?
There are a number of patches on patchwork waiting for approval or review.

> On 12/12/24 02:21, Ronald Wahl wrote:
>> From: Ronald Wahl <ronald.wahl at legrand.com>
>>
>> The get_timer function returns an unsigned long which may be calculated
>> from the ARM system counter. This counter is reset only on a cold reset.
>> U-boot divides this counter down to a 1000 Hz counter that will cross
>> the 32bit barrier after a bit more than 49 days. Assigning the value to
>> an unsigned int will truncate it on 64bit systems.
>> Passing this truncated value back to the get_timer function will return
>> a very large value that is certainly larger than the timeout and so will
>> go down the error path and besides stopping U-Boot will lead to messages
>> like
>>
>>      "SPI: QSPI is still busy after poll for 5000 ms."
>
> Thanks a lot for fixing this!
>
> Reviewed-by: Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr at ti.com>
>
>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ronald Wahl <ronald.wahl at legrand.com>
>> Cc: Vignesh R <vigneshr at ti.com>
>> Cc: Pratyush Yadav <p.yadav at ti.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/spi/cadence_qspi_apb.c | 6 +++---
>>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/spi/cadence_qspi_apb.c b/drivers/spi/cadence_qspi_apb.c
>> index 93ab2b5635..f2f69cf9f1 100644
>> --- a/drivers/spi/cadence_qspi_apb.c
>> +++ b/drivers/spi/cadence_qspi_apb.c
>> @@ -151,9 +151,9 @@ static int cadence_qspi_set_protocol(struct cadence_spi_priv *priv,
>>   /* Return 1 if idle, otherwise return 0 (busy). */
>>   static unsigned int cadence_qspi_wait_idle(void *reg_base)
>>   {
>> -	unsigned int start, count = 0;
>> +	unsigned long start, count = 0;
>>   	/* timeout in unit of ms */
>> -	unsigned int timeout = 5000;
>> +	unsigned long timeout = 5000;
>>
>>   	start = get_timer(0);
>>   	for ( ; get_timer(start) < timeout ; ) {
>> @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ static unsigned int cadence_qspi_wait_idle(void *reg_base)
>>   	}
>>
>>   	/* Timeout, still in busy mode. */
>> -	printf("QSPI: QSPI is still busy after poll for %d ms.\n", timeout);
>> +	printf("QSPI: QSPI is still busy after poll for %lu ms.\n", timeout);
>>   	return 0;
>>   }
>>
>> --
>> 2.47.1
>>
>



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