Re: [PATCH 4/4] spi: spi-fsl-dspi: Report FIFO overflows as errors

From: Vladimir Oltean
Date: Wed Jun 11 2025 - 10:57:21 EST


On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 03:40:40PM +0100, James Clark wrote:
> > Also, could there be individual error messages for TFUF and for RFOF?
> > If you are concerned about the penalty for the error-free case, make the
> > check two-level. First for all errors, then for individual errors.
> >
>
> If I was going to split them I would probably let the compiler optimize it
> whichever way was best. The real reason for combining them is because
> usually you get them both together. As long as the message and fifos are
> configured correctly you'd always get TFUF and RFOF at the same time and I
> wanted to avoid printing twice for one event.

In that case, why not:
if (spi_sr & (SPI_SR_TFUF | SPI_SR_RFOF)) {
dev_err_ratelimited(dev, "FIFO errors:%s%s\n",
spi_sr & SPI_SR_TFUF ? " TX underflow," : "",
spi_sr & SPI_SR_RFOF ? " RX overflow," : "");
}
}