From: Trent Piepho <tpiepho@impinj.com>
To: "festevam@gmail.com" <festevam@gmail.com>
Cc: "mark.rutland@arm.com" <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
"devicetree@vger.kernel.org" <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
"s.hauer@pengutronix.de" <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>,
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"stefan@agner.ch" <stefan@agner.ch>,
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"kernel@pengutronix.de" <kernel@pengutronix.de>,
"fabio.estevam@nxp.com" <fabio.estevam@nxp.com>,
"shawnguo@kernel.org" <shawnguo@kernel.org>,
"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: dts: imx7: add DMA properties for ECSPI
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 22:22:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1549923727.3075.103.camel@impinj.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOMZO5BrTLyg7Q51tPcHbN8S2VmA4HAENOVzNhw+Yx7Nniz3Gg@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 2019-02-11 at 19:34 -0200, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> Hi Trent,
>
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 6:44 PM Trent Piepho <tpiepho@impinj.com> wrote:
>
> > I've had more time to test.
> >
> > Without DMA, I can reload my FPGA hundreds of times and get days of
> > uptime using linux-next.
> >
> > With DMA, loading is unreliable. The higher the SPI speed, the less
> > reliable it is. Unfortunately, it's hard to duplicate the problem with
> > a small amount of data, and with a large amount of data I can't examine
> > it in depth enough to determine if the problem is related to SPI bus
> > timing or IMX sDMA sending the wrong bytes to the spi controller.
> >
> > Using DMA with SPI causes kernel panics. Not always immediately, but
> > after using DMA it's a smaller of minutes before something crashes.
> > The backtraces are all over the place and don't usually point back into
> > SPI. It does seem like they usually hit something has allocated or is
> > allocating DMA memory.
>
> Did you test with an external SDMA firmware or with the ROM SDMA firmware?
>
> Just trying to understand if the SDMA firmware plays a role on this
> behavior or not.
The ROM firmware only.
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From: Trent Piepho <tpiepho@impinj.com>
To: "festevam@gmail.com" <festevam@gmail.com>
Cc: "linux-imx@nxp.com" <linux-imx@nxp.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"robh+dt@kernel.org" <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
"stefan@agner.ch" <stefan@agner.ch>,
"devicetree@vger.kernel.org" <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
"fabio.estevam@nxp.com" <fabio.estevam@nxp.com>,
"mark.rutland@arm.com" <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
"shawnguo@kernel.org" <shawnguo@kernel.org>,
"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
"kernel@pengutronix.de" <kernel@pengutronix.de>,
"s.hauer@pengutronix.de" <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: dts: imx7: add DMA properties for ECSPI
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 22:22:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1549923727.3075.103.camel@impinj.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOMZO5BrTLyg7Q51tPcHbN8S2VmA4HAENOVzNhw+Yx7Nniz3Gg@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 2019-02-11 at 19:34 -0200, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> Hi Trent,
>
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 6:44 PM Trent Piepho <tpiepho@impinj.com> wrote:
>
> > I've had more time to test.
> >
> > Without DMA, I can reload my FPGA hundreds of times and get days of
> > uptime using linux-next.
> >
> > With DMA, loading is unreliable. The higher the SPI speed, the less
> > reliable it is. Unfortunately, it's hard to duplicate the problem with
> > a small amount of data, and with a large amount of data I can't examine
> > it in depth enough to determine if the problem is related to SPI bus
> > timing or IMX sDMA sending the wrong bytes to the spi controller.
> >
> > Using DMA with SPI causes kernel panics. Not always immediately, but
> > after using DMA it's a smaller of minutes before something crashes.
> > The backtraces are all over the place and don't usually point back into
> > SPI. It does seem like they usually hit something has allocated or is
> > allocating DMA memory.
>
> Did you test with an external SDMA firmware or with the ROM SDMA firmware?
>
> Just trying to understand if the SDMA firmware plays a role on this
> behavior or not.
The ROM firmware only.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-11 22:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-07 13:22 [PATCH 1/2] ARM: dts: imx6ul: add DMA properties for ECSPI Stefan Agner
2019-01-07 13:22 ` Stefan Agner
2019-01-07 13:22 ` [PATCH 2/2] ARM: dts: imx7: " Stefan Agner
2019-01-07 13:22 ` Stefan Agner
2019-02-07 21:00 ` Trent Piepho
2019-02-07 21:00 ` Trent Piepho
2019-02-11 1:23 ` Shawn Guo
2019-02-11 1:23 ` Shawn Guo
2019-02-11 20:14 ` Trent Piepho
2019-02-11 20:14 ` Trent Piepho
2019-02-11 21:34 ` Fabio Estevam
2019-02-11 21:34 ` Fabio Estevam
2019-02-11 22:22 ` Trent Piepho [this message]
2019-02-11 22:22 ` Trent Piepho
2019-02-12 19:37 ` Fabio Estevam
2019-02-12 19:37 ` Fabio Estevam
2019-02-13 0:07 ` Trent Piepho
2019-02-13 0:07 ` Trent Piepho
2019-02-13 0:57 ` Fabio Estevam
2019-02-13 0:57 ` Fabio Estevam
2019-02-13 1:10 ` Trent Piepho
2019-02-13 1:10 ` Trent Piepho
2019-02-12 19:20 ` Stefan Agner
2019-02-12 19:20 ` Stefan Agner
2019-02-13 11:56 ` Mark Brown
2019-02-13 11:56 ` Mark Brown
2019-01-13 3:34 ` [PATCH 1/2] ARM: dts: imx6ul: " Shawn Guo
2019-01-13 3:34 ` Shawn Guo
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