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[for-4.9,6/7] spi: double time out tolerance

Message ID 1498464091-26753-7-git-send-email-amit.pundir@linaro.org
State Superseded
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Series Stable commits picked up from lede project | expand

Commit Message

Amit Pundir June 26, 2017, 8:01 a.m. UTC 
From: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>


commit 833bfade96561216aa2129516a5926a0326860a2 upstream.

The generic SPI code calculates how long the issued transfer would take
and adds 100ms in addition to the timeout as tolerance. On my 500 MHz
Lantiq Mips SoC I am getting timeouts from the SPI like this when the
system boots up:

m25p80 spi32766.4: SPI transfer timed out
blk_update_request: I/O error, dev mtdblock3, sector 2
SQUASHFS error: squashfs_read_data failed to read block 0x6e

After increasing the tolerance for the timeout to 200ms I haven't seen
these SPI transfer time outs any more.
The Lantiq SPI driver in use here has an extra work queue in between,
which gets triggered when the controller send the last word and the
hardware FIFOs used for reading and writing are only 8 words long.

Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>

---
 drivers/spi/spi.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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2.7.4

Comments

Mark Brown June 26, 2017, 11:54 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 01:31:30PM +0530, Amit Pundir wrote:

> After increasing the tolerance for the timeout to 200ms I haven't seen

> these SPI transfer time outs any more.

> The Lantiq SPI driver in use here has an extra work queue in between,

> which gets triggered when the controller send the last word and the

> hardware FIFOs used for reading and writing are only 8 words long.


This is pretty much just for that driver, like the commit message says
it's weirdly written due to poorly thought through hardware so has
noticably higher overhead than normal drivers.  It shouldn't do any harm
in stable since people probably shouldn't be running into errors.
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi.c b/drivers/spi/spi.c
index 838783c3fed0..24d4492d0168 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi.c
@@ -1004,7 +1004,7 @@  static int spi_transfer_one_message(struct spi_master *master,
 				ret = 0;
 				ms = 8LL * 1000LL * xfer->len;
 				do_div(ms, xfer->speed_hz);
-				ms += ms + 100; /* some tolerance */
+				ms += ms + 200; /* some tolerance */
 
 				if (ms > UINT_MAX)
 					ms = UINT_MAX;