Re: [PATCH v4 5/6] spi: spi-fsl-dspi: Increase DMA buffer size

From: Frank Li
Date: Fri Jun 27 2025 - 15:45:10 EST


On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 11:21:41AM +0100, James Clark wrote:
> From: Larisa Grigore <larisa.grigore@xxxxxxx>
>
> When the device is configured as a target, the host won't stop sending
> data while we're draining the buffer which leads to FIFO underflows
> and corruption.
>
> Increase the DMA buffer size to the maximum words that edma can
> transfer once to reduce the chance of this happening.
>
> While we're here, also change the buffer size for host mode back to a
> page as it was before commit a957499bd437 ("spi: spi-fsl-dspi: Fix
> bits-per-word acceleration in DMA mode"). dma_alloc_noncoherent()
> allocations are backed by a full page anyway, so we might as well use it
> all.
>
> Signed-off-by: Larisa Grigore <larisa.grigore@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/spi/spi-fsl-dspi.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-dspi.c b/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-dspi.c
> index e7856f9c9440..46d3cae9efed 100644
> --- a/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-dspi.c
> +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-dspi.c
> @@ -493,6 +493,39 @@ static u32 dspi_pop_tx_pushr(struct fsl_dspi *dspi)
> return cmd << 16 | data;
> }
>
> +static int dspi_dma_bufsize(struct fsl_dspi *dspi)
> +{
> + if (spi_controller_is_target(dspi->ctlr)) {
> + /*
> + * In target mode we have to be ready to receive the maximum
> + * that can possibly be transferred at once by EDMA without any
> + * FIFO underflows. This is CITER * SSIZE, where SSIZE is a max
> + * of 4 when transferring to a peripheral.
> + */
> + return GENMASK(14, 0) * DMA_SLAVE_BUSWIDTH_4_BYTES;
> + }
> +
> + return PAGE_SIZE;
> +}
> +
> +static int dspi_dma_max_datawords(struct fsl_dspi *dspi)
> +{
> + /*
> + * Transfers look like this so we always use a full DMA word regardless
> + * of SPI word size:
> + *
> + * 31 16 15 0
> + * -----------------------------------------
> + * | CONTROL WORD | 16-bit DATA |
> + * -----------------------------------------
> + * or
> + * -----------------------------------------
> + * | CONTROL WORD | UNUSED | 8-bit DATA |
> + * -----------------------------------------
> + */
> + return dspi_dma_bufsize(dspi) / DMA_SLAVE_BUSWIDTH_4_BYTES;
> +}
> +
> static int dspi_dma_transfer_size(struct fsl_dspi *dspi)
> {
> return dspi->words_in_flight * DMA_SLAVE_BUSWIDTH_4_BYTES;
> @@ -608,6 +641,7 @@ static int dspi_next_xfer_dma_submit(struct fsl_dspi *dspi)
> static void dspi_dma_xfer(struct fsl_dspi *dspi)
> {
> struct spi_message *message = dspi->cur_msg;
> + int max_words = dspi_dma_max_datawords(dspi);
> struct device *dev = &dspi->pdev->dev;
>
> /*
> @@ -619,8 +653,8 @@ static void dspi_dma_xfer(struct fsl_dspi *dspi)
> dspi_setup_accel(dspi);
>
> dspi->words_in_flight = dspi->len / dspi->oper_word_size;
> - if (dspi->words_in_flight > dspi->devtype_data->fifo_size)
> - dspi->words_in_flight = dspi->devtype_data->fifo_size;
> + if (dspi->words_in_flight > max_words)
> + dspi->words_in_flight = max_words;

you touch this line

dspi->words_in_flight = min(dspi->words_in_flight, max_words);

Frank
>
> message->actual_length += dspi->words_in_flight *
> dspi->oper_word_size;
> @@ -635,7 +669,7 @@ static void dspi_dma_xfer(struct fsl_dspi *dspi)
>
> static int dspi_request_dma(struct fsl_dspi *dspi, phys_addr_t phy_addr)
> {
> - int dma_bufsize = dspi->devtype_data->fifo_size * 2;
> + int dma_bufsize = dspi_dma_bufsize(dspi);
> struct device *dev = &dspi->pdev->dev;
> struct dma_slave_config cfg;
> struct fsl_dspi_dma *dma;
> @@ -719,7 +753,7 @@ static int dspi_request_dma(struct fsl_dspi *dspi, phys_addr_t phy_addr)
>
> static void dspi_release_dma(struct fsl_dspi *dspi)
> {
> - int dma_bufsize = dspi->devtype_data->fifo_size * 2;
> + int dma_bufsize = dspi_dma_bufsize(dspi);
> struct fsl_dspi_dma *dma = dspi->dma;
>
> if (!dma)
>
> --
> 2.34.1
>