[PATCH] spi: dw: Fix wrong FIFO level setting for long xfers

From: Serge Semin
Date: Fri Jan 13 2023 - 11:58:11 EST


Due to using the u16 type in the min_t() macros the SPI transfer length
will be cast to word before participating in the conditional statement
implied by the macro. Thus if the transfer length is greater than 64KB the
Tx/Rx FIFO threshold level value will be determined by the leftover of the
truncated after the type-case length. In the worst case it will cause
having the "Tx FIFO Empty" or "Rx FIFO Full" interrupts triggered on each
word sent/received to/from the bus. In its turn it will cause the
dramatical performance drop.

The problem can be easily fixed by using the min() macros instead of
min_t() which doesn't imply any type casting thus preventing the possible
data loss.

Fixes: ea11370fffdf ("spi: dw: get TX level without an additional variable")
Reported-by: Sergey Nazarov <Sergey.Nazarov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/spi/spi-dw-core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-dw-core.c b/drivers/spi/spi-dw-core.c
index 99edddf9958b..b3d287f401cd 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi-dw-core.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi-dw-core.c
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ static void dw_spi_irq_setup(struct dw_spi *dws)
* will be adjusted at the final stage of the IRQ-based SPI transfer
* execution so not to lose the leftover of the incoming data.
*/
- level = min_t(u16, dws->fifo_len / 2, dws->tx_len);
+ level = min(dws->fifo_len / 2, dws->tx_len);
dw_writel(dws, DW_SPI_TXFTLR, level);
dw_writel(dws, DW_SPI_RXFTLR, level - 1);

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