Hi Robert,

about this bug, are you also fixing the kernel am33x-rt-v4.1 ?

I'm interested also by the spi in the kernel am33x-rt-v4.1.


Micka,


Le jeu. 5 nov. 2015 à 15:47, Robert Nelson <[email protected]> a
écrit :

> The journey into spi & dma..
>
> So for awhile now, we've had a bug for spi users, where the system
> would hardlock at the "160" byte threashold:
>
> debian@beaglebone:~$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/spidev1.0 bs=159 count=1
> 1+0 records in
> 1+0 records out
> 159 bytes (159 B) copied, 0.000508833 s, 312 kB/s
> debian@beaglebone:/sys$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/spidev1.0 bs=160 count=1
> ^C
>
> (hangs..)
>
> "160" happens to be a the magic number where DMA takes over from PIO
> mode...
>
> Well as of yesterday:
>
> debian@beaglebone:~$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/spidev1.0 bs=320 count=1
> 1+0 records in
> 1+0 records out
> 320 bytes (320 B) copied, 0.00266366 s, 120 kB/s
>
> So here's the deal, it looks to be a spi/overlay bug, as we don't seem
> to get the correct dma tx/rx channels..
>
> What interesting, when the "spi" node is enabled in the main dtb:
>
>
> https://github.com/RobertCNelson/dtb-rebuilder/blob/4.1-ti/src/arm/am335x-boneblack-spi0.dts#L120-L137
>
> it works fine in dma mode...
>
> So with "4.1.12-ti-r27" spi-dma is now disabled..
>
> *btw:
>
> Late last night i wrote a better fix (will be r28)
>
> where you can disable "spi-dma" via the dt option:
>
> ti,pio-mode;
>
>
> https://github.com/beagleboard/bb.org-overlays/commit/48d33d4d22f284103db83626b343724cf18c578d
>
> Regards,
>
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>
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