Hi,

On Fri, Nov 13, 2026 at 02:50:17PM +0100, Heiko Stuebner wrote:
> From: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@cherry.de>
> 
> Rockchip SPI controllers are often used to handle SPI connected PMICs that
> also handle system power-off events, like the RK806.
> 
> When the kernel signals the power-off, all the interrupts are already
> disabled, so regular SPI with its mutexes and DMA transfers does not
> work anymore.
> 
> Implement an atomic transfer function that does SPI transfers polling the
> controller in a loop without any DMA or IRQ.
> 
> This can successfully handle the power-off command to RK806, but also
> read back the 2 chip-id registers just fine before that, as a test.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@cherry.de>
> ---
> [...]
> +static int rockchip_spi_transfer_atomic(struct spi_device *spi, struct spi_message *msg)
> +{
> +	struct spi_controller *ctlr = spi->controller;
> +	struct rockchip_spi *rs = spi_controller_get_devdata(ctlr);
> +	struct spi_transfer *xfer;
> +	int ret = 0;
> +
> +	spi_set_cs(spi, true, false);

I think it's sensible to avoid SErrors in case something went wrong
with the preparation:

if (!pm_runtime_active(rs->dev)) {
    dev_err(rs->dev, "Failed to do atomic SPI transfer due to runtime suspend\n");
    ret = -EIO;
    goto out;
}

> +
> +	/* make sure all interrupts are masked and status cleared */
> +	writel_relaxed(0, rs->regs + ROCKCHIP_SPI_IMR);
> +	writel_relaxed(0xffffffff, rs->regs + ROCKCHIP_SPI_ICR);
>
> [...]

Greetings, 

-- Sebastian