public inbox for linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>
To: kernel@martin.sperl.org, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>,
	Hubert Denkmair <h.denkmair@intence.de>,
	linux-spi@vger.kernel.org, linux-rpi-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 3/9] spi: bcm2835aux: use BCM2835_AUX_SPI_STAT_RX_LVL
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 10:52:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a032aeb1-7c08-2159-87ab-eaabedf6def8@i2se.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190324175002.28969-4-kernel@martin.sperl.org>

Hi Martin,

here is my suggestion for a subject:

spi: bcm2835aux: fix corruptions for longer spi transfers

Am 24.03.19 um 18:49 schrieb kernel@martin.sperl.org:
> From: Martin Sperl <kernel@martin.sperl.org>
>
> On long running tests with a mcp2517fd can controller it showed that
> on rare occations the data read shows corruptions for longer spi transfers.
>
> Example of a 22 byte transfer:
>
> expected (as captured on logic analyzer):
> FF FF 78 00 00 00 08 06 00 00 91 20 77 56 84 85 86 87 88 89 8a 8b
>
> read by the driver:
> FF FF 78 00 00 00 08 06 00 00 91 20 77 56 84 88 89 8a 00 00 8b 9b
>
> To fix this use BCM2835_AUX_SPI_STAT_RX_LVL to determine when we may
> read data from the fifo reliably without any corruption.
>
> Surprisingly the only values ever empirically read in
> BCM2835_AUX_SPI_STAT_RX_LVL are 0x00, 0x10, 0x20 and 0x30.
> So whenever the mask is not 0 we can read from the fifo in a safe manner.
>
> The patch has now been tested intensively and we are no longer
> able to reproduce the "RX" issue any longer.
>
> Fixes: 1ea29b39f4c812ece2f936065a0a3d6fe44a263e

Please use a proper fixes tages in all of your patches. Doesn't
checkpatch.pl complain about it?

Thanks Stefan


_______________________________________________
linux-arm-kernel mailing list
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel

  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-25  9:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-24 17:49 [PATCH V2 0/9] spi: bcm2835aux: bug fixes and improvements kernel
2019-03-24 17:49 ` [PATCH V2 1/9] spi: bcm2835aux: unifying code between polling and interrupt driven code kernel
2019-03-24 17:49 ` [PATCH V2 2/9] spi: bcm2835aux: remove dangerous uncontrolled read of fifo kernel
2019-03-24 17:49 ` [PATCH V2 3/9] spi: bcm2835aux: use BCM2835_AUX_SPI_STAT_RX_LVL kernel
2019-03-25  9:52   ` Stefan Wahren [this message]
2019-03-24 17:49 ` [PATCH V2 4/9] spi: bcm2835aux: remove dead code kernel
2019-03-24 17:49 ` [PATCH V2 5/9] spi: bcm2835aux: fix driver to not allow 65535 (=-1) cs-gpios kernel
2019-03-24 17:49 ` [PATCH V2 6/9] spi: bcm2835aux: warn in dmesg that native cs is not really supported kernel
2019-03-25 10:28   ` Stefan Wahren
2019-03-24 17:50 ` [PATCH V2 7/9] spi: bcm2835aux: setup gpio-cs to output and correct level during setup kernel
2019-03-24 17:50 ` [PATCH V2 8/9] spi: bcm2835aux: add driver stats to debugfs kernel
2019-03-25  9:28   ` Stefan Wahren
2019-03-25  9:52     ` kernel
2019-03-25 10:06       ` Stefan Wahren
2019-03-25 10:11         ` kernel
2019-03-25 10:45           ` Stefan Wahren
2019-03-24 17:50 ` [PATCH V2 9/9] spi: bcm2835aux: make the polling duration limits configurable kernel
2019-03-25  9:44   ` Stefan Wahren
2019-03-25  9:49     ` kernel
2019-03-25  9:59       ` Stefan Wahren

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=a032aeb1-7c08-2159-87ab-eaabedf6def8@i2se.com \
    --to=stefan.wahren@i2se.com \
    --cc=broonie@kernel.org \
    --cc=eric@anholt.net \
    --cc=h.denkmair@intence.de \
    --cc=kernel@martin.sperl.org \
    --cc=linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org \
    --cc=linux-rpi-kernel@lists.infradead.org \
    --cc=linux-spi@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox