RE: [PATCH v5 11/15] dmaengine: imx-sdma: fix ecspi1 rx dma not work on i.mx8mm

From: Robin Gong <yibin.gong@nxp.com>
To: Schrempf Frieder <frieder.schrempf@kontron.de>
Cc: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v5 11/15] dmaengine: imx-sdma: fix ecspi1 rx dma not work on i.mx8mm
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 01:55:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <VE1PR04MB6638B066EE28781A3C21973D89810@VE1PR04MB6638.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1307d229-4c49-80e3-04ba-377c0caeae9c@kontron.de>

On 2019-9-25 22:53 Schrempf Frieder <frieder.schrempf@kontron.de> wrote:
> On 25.09.19 13:26, Robin Gong wrote:
> > On 2019-9-24 21:28 Schrempf Frieder <frieder.schrempf@kontron.de>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Robin,
> >>
> >>> From: Robin Gong <yibin.gong at nxp.com>
> >>>
> >>> Because the number of ecspi1 rx event on i.mx8mm is 0, the condition
> >>> check ignore such special case without dma channel enabled, which
> >>> caused
> >>> ecspi1 rx works failed. Actually, no need to check
> >>> event_id0/event_id1 and replace checking 'event_id1' with
> >>> 'DMA_DEV_TO_DEV', so that configure
> >>> event_id1 only in case DEV_TO_DEV.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Robin Gong <yibin.gong at nxp.com>
> >>> Acked-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul at kernel.org>
> >>
> >> I have a custom board with i.MX8MM and SPI flash on ecspi1. I'm
> >> currently testing with v5.3 and as SPI didn't work, I tried two different
> things:
> >>
> >> 1. Removing 'dmas' and 'dma-names' from the ecspi1 node in
> imx8mm.dtsi,
> >>      to use PIO instead of DMA. This works as expected and the driver
> >>      boots with the following messages:
> >>
> >>          spi_imx 30820000.spi: dma setup error -19, use pio
> >>          m25p80 spi0.0: mx25v8035f (1024 Kbytes)
> >>          spi_imx 30820000.spi: probed
> >>
> >> 2. Applying your patchset and use DMA. In this case, the flash also
> >>      works fine, but there are some error messages printed while
> booting:
> >>
> >>          spi_master spi0: I/O Error in DMA RX
> >>          m25p80 spi0.0: SPI transfer failed: -110
> >>          spi_master spi0: failed to transfer one message from queue
> >>          m25p80 spi0.0: mx25v8035f (1024 Kbytes)
> >>          spi_imx 30820000.spi: probed
> >>
> >> It would be great to get your patches merged and fix SPI + DMA, but
> >> for i.MX8MM, we need to get rid of the error messages. Do you have an
> >> idea, what's wrong?
> 
> > Could you check if the length of spi message is bigger than fifo_size
> > during spi_nor probe? If yes, at that time maybe sdma firmware not loaded.
> > if (transfer->len < spi_imx->devtype_data->fifo_size)
> 
> Indeed, most of the transfers triggered by the SPI NOR dirver are below
> fifo_size and work fine, but some are bigger. The transfers therefore try to
> use DMA, but the firmware is not loaded yet.
> 
> How is this supposed to work? Shouldn't all transfers use PIO as long as the
> SDMA firmware is not loaded yet?
Yes, for ecspi should work with ram script, it's better check if sdma firmware
is ready in spi_imx_dma_configure(), need modification in sdma driver too.
I'll create another patch after this patch set accepted. 
> 
> (+ Cc: linux-spi@vger.kernel.org)
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