Re: [PATCHv4 2/3] drivers: spi: Add qspi flash controller

From: Sourav Poddar
Date: Thu Jul 18 2013 - 08:25:22 EST


On Thursday 18 July 2013 04:54 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote:
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 04:48:41PM +0530, Sourav Poddar wrote:
+static void qspi_write_msg(struct ti_qspi *qspi, struct spi_transfer *t)
+{
+ const u8 *txbuf;
+ int wlen, count;
+
+ count = t->len;
+ txbuf = t->tx_buf;
+ wlen = t->bits_per_word;
+
+ while (count--) {
+ dev_dbg(qspi->dev, "tx cmd %08x dc %08x data %02x\n",
+ qspi->cmd | QSPI_WR_SNGL, qspi->dc, *txbuf);
+ ti_qspi_writel_data(qspi, *txbuf++, QSPI_SPI_DATA_REG, wlen);
you always increment by each byte. Here, if you used writel(), you wrote
4 bytes and should increment txbuf by 4.
hmm..got this point. Yes, my mistake, here I agree if wlen is not 8 bits
txbuf++ is not valid.
Same goes for read_data(),
below. Another thing. Even though your wlen might be 8 bits, if you
write 4 bytes to write, you can save a few CPU cycles by using writel().

Do you mean 4 words of 8 bits?
yeah. Say you have wlen = 8 but the transfer length is 8 bytes (64
bits). If you use writeb(), you will do 8 writes, if you use writel()
you'll do 2 writes.

hmm.. I will check this out.
If our wlen is 8, after every 8 bits there will be
an interrupt. Will check that out, how that interrupt
should be tackled if we desired to read 4 bytes in a single writel/readl.
+static int ti_qspi_start_transfer_one(struct spi_master *master,
+ struct spi_message *m)
+{
+ struct ti_qspi *qspi = spi_master_get_devdata(master);
+ struct spi_device *spi = m->spi;
+ struct spi_transfer *t;
+ int status = 0, ret;
+ int frame_length;
+
+ /* setup device control reg */
+ qspi->dc = 0;
+
+ if (spi->mode& SPI_CPHA)
+ qspi->dc |= QSPI_CKPHA(spi->chip_select);
+ if (spi->mode& SPI_CPOL)
+ qspi->dc |= QSPI_CKPOL(spi->chip_select);
+ if (spi->mode& SPI_CS_HIGH)
+ qspi->dc |= QSPI_CSPOL(spi->chip_select);
+
+ frame_length = DIV_ROUND_UP(m->frame_length * spi->bits_per_word,
+ spi->bits_per_word);
this calculation doesn't look correct.

(m->frame_length * spi->bits_per_word) /
spi->bits_per_word = m->frame_length

What are you trying to achieve here ? frame_length should be counted in
words right ? And we get that value in bytes. So what's the best
calculation to convert bytes into words ? If you have 8 bits_per_word
you don't need any calculation, but if you have 32 bits_per_word, you
_do_ need something.

Yes, just derive this formulae with 8 bits per word in mind.
Will change.
It should be (m->frame_length * 8) / spi->bits_per_word
right on. To make sure this will execute a little faster (you never know
what several different versions of GCC will do), instead of multiplying
by 8, left shift by 3.

Ok. Will do.
How will you achieve the number you want ? (hint: 1 byte == 8 bits)

And btw, all of these mistakes pretty much tell me that this driver
hasn't been tested. How have you tested this driver ?
After bootup, I checked for deive detting enumerated as /proc/mtd.
After which I am using mtdutils(erase, dump and write utilied to
check for the communication with the flash device.)
alright, make that clear in your commit log.

Ok.
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