Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] spi: npcm-pspi: add full duplex support

[Tomer Maimon <tmaimon77@gmail.com>]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for your detailed explanation!

On Thu, 21 Jul 2022 at 16:46, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 01:15:55PM +0300, Tomer Maimon wrote:
>
> > The NPCM PSPI handler, on TX-buffer not null, would perform a dummy read
> > but did not save the rx-data, this was valid only for half duplex.
>
> > This patch adds full duplex support for NPCM PSPI driver by storing all
> > rx-data when the Rx-buffer is defined also for TX-buffer handling.
>
> This doesn't seem to entirely correspond to what the patch does, nor to
> what the driver currently does?  I can't see any dummy read code in the
> current driver.
>
In the current handler file, in the handler function.
static irqreturn_t npcm_pspi_handler(int irq, void *dev_id)
....
-       if (priv->tx_buf) {
-               if (stat & NPCM_PSPI_STAT_RBF) {
-                       ioread8(NPCM_PSPI_DATA + priv->base);
the read above doing a dummy read
-                       if (priv->tx_bytes == 0) {
-                               npcm_pspi_disable(priv);
-                               complete(&priv->xfer_done);
-                               return IRQ_HANDLED;
-                       }
-               }


> >  static void npcm_pspi_send(struct npcm_pspi *priv)
> >  {
> >       int wsize;
> > -     u16 val;
> > +     u16 val = 0;
> >
> >       wsize = min(bytes_per_word(priv->bits_per_word), priv->tx_bytes);
> >       priv->tx_bytes -= wsize;
> >
> > -     if (!priv->tx_buf)
> > -             return;
> > -
> >       switch (wsize) {
> >       case 1:
> > -             val = *priv->tx_buf++;
> > +             if (priv->tx_buf)
> > +                     val = *priv->tx_buf++;
> >               iowrite8(val, NPCM_PSPI_DATA + priv->base);
> >               break;
>
> These changes appaear to be trying to ensure that when _send() is called
> we now always write something out, even if there was no transmit buffer.
> Since the device has been supporting half duplex transfers it is not
> clear why we'd want to do that, it's adding overhead to the PIO which
> isn't great.  This also isn't what the changelog said, the changelog
> said we were adding reading of data when there's a transmit buffer.
> Similar issues apply on the read side.
>
> AFAICT the bulk of what the change is doing is trying make the driver
> unconditionally do both read and writes to the hardware when it would
> previously have only read or written data if there was a buffer
> provided.  That's basically open coding SPI_CONTROLLER_MUST_TX and
> SPI_CONTROLLER_MUST_RX, if that's what the hardware needs then you
> should just set those flags and let the core fix things up.
We will try to use SPI_CONTROLLER_MUST_TX and SPI_CONTROLLER_MUST_RX
>
> > +       /*
> > +        * first we do the read since if we do the write we previous read might
> > +        * be lost (indeed low chances)
> > +        */
>
> This reordering sounds like it might be needed but should have been
> mentioned in the changelog and is a separate patch.

Best regards,

Tomer