From: "Shih-Yuan Lee (FourDollars)" <fourdollars@gmail.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-spi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Shih-Yuan Lee <fourdollars@debian.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] spi: pxa2xx: disable DMA and fix runtime PM for Apple MacBook8,1
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:36:15 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260717143616.4765-2-fourdollars@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260717143616.4765-1-fourdollars@gmail.com>
From: Shih-Yuan Lee <fourdollars@debian.org>
On MacBook8,1 (early 2015 12" MacBook), the LPSS SPI controller at
00:15.4 has two related problems:
1. The DMA handshake and interrupt routing frequently fail or time out,
causing the keyboard and trackpad (driven by the applespi driver via
SPI) to become unresponsive. Force PIO mode to avoid this.
2. When DMA is disabled, runtime PM autosuspend clock-gates the LPSS
block between transfers. Accessing its MMIO registers while clock-gated
triggers a PCIe Completion Timeout which causes a watchdog reset.
Move the force-PIO DMI quirk to spi-pxa2xx-pci.c (the LPSS host controller
driver) to avoid layering violations in the client driver.
To prevent the PCIe Completion Timeout crash when operating in PIO mode:
- Only enable runtime autosuspend in pxa2xx_spi_pci_probe() if enable_dma
is true.
- If DMA is disabled (either statically via the DMI quirk / module parameter
or dynamically due to channel exhaustion), call pm_runtime_forbid() in
pxa2xx_spi_probe() to permanently disable runtime PM autosuspend. This
prevents userspace tools (like PowerTOP) or udev rules from overriding
the setting.
- Call synchronize_irq() in pxa2xx_spi_runtime_suspend() to wait for any
active handlers on the shared interrupt line to finish before disabling
the clock, avoiding unclocked MMIO register reads in ssp_int().
Avoid duplicate can-DMA pci_info() logging by checking the pre-computed
enable_dma status in probe and passing a verbose flag to can_dma().
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108331
Signed-off-by: Shih-Yuan Lee <fourdollars@debian.org>
---
drivers/spi/spi-pxa2xx-pci.c | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
drivers/spi/spi-pxa2xx.c | 4 +++
2 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-pxa2xx-pci.c b/drivers/spi/spi-pxa2xx-pci.c
index cae77ac18520..c107b3b53d33 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi-pxa2xx-pci.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi-pxa2xx-pci.c
@@ -18,9 +18,14 @@
#include <linux/dmaengine.h>
#include <linux/platform_data/dma-dw.h>
+#include <linux/dmi.h>
#include "spi-pxa2xx.h"
+static bool spi_pxa2xx_force_pio;
+module_param_named(force_pio, spi_pxa2xx_force_pio, bool, 0444);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(force_pio, "Force PIO mode (disables DMA) for SPI transfers. ([0] = disabled, 1 = enabled)");
+
#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_QUARK_X1000 0x0935
#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_BYT 0x0f0e
#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_MRFLD 0x1194
@@ -93,6 +98,34 @@ static void lpss_dma_put_device(void *dma_dev)
pci_dev_put(dma_dev);
}
+static const struct dmi_system_id pxa2xx_spi_pci_dmi_table[] = {
+ {
+ .ident = "Apple MacBook8,1",
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Apple Inc."),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "MacBook8,1"),
+ },
+ },
+ { }
+};
+
+static bool pxa2xx_spi_pci_can_dma(struct pci_dev *dev, bool verbose)
+{
+ if (spi_pxa2xx_force_pio) {
+ if (verbose)
+ pci_info(dev, "Forcing PIO mode (disabling DMA)\n");
+ return false;
+ }
+
+ if (dmi_check_system(pxa2xx_spi_pci_dmi_table)) {
+ if (verbose)
+ pci_info(dev, "MacBook8,1 detected: disabling DMA to force PIO mode\n");
+ return false;
+ }
+
+ return true;
+}
+
static int lpss_spi_setup(struct pci_dev *dev, struct pxa2xx_spi_controller *c)
{
struct ssp_device *ssp = &c->ssp;
@@ -166,7 +199,7 @@ static int lpss_spi_setup(struct pci_dev *dev, struct pxa2xx_spi_controller *c)
c->dma_filter = lpss_dma_filter;
c->dma_burst_size = 1;
- c->enable_dma = 1;
+ c->enable_dma = pxa2xx_spi_pci_can_dma(dev, true);
return 0;
}
@@ -238,7 +271,7 @@ static int mrfld_spi_setup(struct pci_dev *dev, struct pxa2xx_spi_controller *c)
c->dma_filter = lpss_dma_filter;
c->dma_burst_size = 8;
- c->enable_dma = 1;
+ c->enable_dma = pxa2xx_spi_pci_can_dma(dev, true);
return 0;
}
@@ -300,10 +333,12 @@ static int pxa2xx_spi_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *dev,
if (ret)
return ret;
- pm_runtime_set_autosuspend_delay(&dev->dev, 50);
- pm_runtime_use_autosuspend(&dev->dev);
- pm_runtime_put_autosuspend(&dev->dev);
- pm_runtime_allow(&dev->dev);
+ if (pdata->enable_dma) {
+ pm_runtime_set_autosuspend_delay(&dev->dev, 50);
+ pm_runtime_use_autosuspend(&dev->dev);
+ pm_runtime_put_autosuspend(&dev->dev);
+ pm_runtime_allow(&dev->dev);
+ }
return 0;
}
diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-pxa2xx.c b/drivers/spi/spi-pxa2xx.c
index 6291d7c2e06f..f9dde4b28c32 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi-pxa2xx.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi-pxa2xx.c
@@ -1351,6 +1351,9 @@ int pxa2xx_spi_probe(struct device *dev, struct ssp_device *ssp,
}
}
+ if (!platform_info->enable_dma)
+ pm_runtime_forbid(dev);
+
/* Enable SOC clock */
status = clk_prepare_enable(ssp->clk);
if (status)
@@ -1518,6 +1521,7 @@ static int pxa2xx_spi_runtime_suspend(struct device *dev)
{
struct driver_data *drv_data = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+ synchronize_irq(drv_data->ssp->irq);
clk_disable_unprepare(drv_data->ssp->clk);
return 0;
}
--
2.39.5
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2026-07-17 14:36 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] spi: pxa2xx: MacBook8,1 quirk and LPSS S3 resume state fixes Shih-Yuan Lee (FourDollars)
2026-07-17 14:36 ` Shih-Yuan Lee (FourDollars) [this message]
2026-07-17 14:36 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] spi: pxa2xx: restore LPSS private register state on S3 resume Shih-Yuan Lee (FourDollars)
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