Re: [PATCH v4 6/6] hw/ssi: imx_spi: Correct tx and rx fifo endianness

[Bin Meng]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 6:46 PM Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 at 08:15, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Bin Meng <bin.meng@windriver.com>
> >
> > The endianness of data exchange between tx and rx fifo is incorrect.
> > Earlier bytes are supposed to show up on MSB and later bytes on LSB,
> > ie: in big endian. The manual does not explicitly say this, but the
> > U-Boot and Linux driver codes have a swap on the data transferred
> > to tx fifo and from rx fifo.
> >
> > With this change, U-Boot read from / write to SPI flash tests pass.
> >
> >   => sf test 1ff000 1000
> >   SPI flash test:
> >   0 erase: 0 ticks, 4096000 KiB/s 32768.000 Mbps
> >   1 check: 3 ticks, 1333 KiB/s 10.664 Mbps
> >   2 write: 235 ticks, 17 KiB/s 0.136 Mbps
> >   3 read: 2 ticks, 2000 KiB/s 16.000 Mbps
> >   Test passed
> >   0 erase: 0 ticks, 4096000 KiB/s 32768.000 Mbps
> >   1 check: 3 ticks, 1333 KiB/s 10.664 Mbps
> >   2 write: 235 ticks, 17 KiB/s 0.136 Mbps
> >   3 read: 2 ticks, 2000 KiB/s 16.000 Mbps
> >
> > Fixes: c906a3a01582 ("i.MX: Add the Freescale SPI Controller")
> > Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bin.meng@windriver.com>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > (no changes since v3)
> >
> > Changes in v3:
> > - Simplify the tx fifo endianness handling
> >
> >  hw/ssi/imx_spi.c | 7 ++-----
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/hw/ssi/imx_spi.c b/hw/ssi/imx_spi.c
> > index 47c8a0f572..b5124a6426 100644
> > --- a/hw/ssi/imx_spi.c
> > +++ b/hw/ssi/imx_spi.c
> > @@ -171,7 +171,6 @@ static void imx_spi_flush_txfifo(IMXSPIState *s)
> >
> >      while (!fifo32_is_empty(&s->tx_fifo)) {
> >          int tx_burst = 0;
> > -        int index = 0;
> >
> >          if (s->burst_length <= 0) {
> >              s->burst_length = imx_spi_burst_length(s);
> > @@ -192,7 +191,7 @@ static void imx_spi_flush_txfifo(IMXSPIState *s)
> >          rx = 0;
> >
> >          while (tx_burst > 0) {
> > -            uint8_t byte = tx & 0xff;
> > +            uint8_t byte = tx >> (tx_burst - 8);
> >
> >              DPRINTF("writing 0x%02x\n", (uint32_t)byte);
> >
> > @@ -201,13 +200,11 @@ static void imx_spi_flush_txfifo(IMXSPIState *s)
> >
> >              DPRINTF("0x%02x read\n", (uint32_t)byte);
> >
> > -            tx = tx >> 8;
> > -            rx |= (byte << (index * 8));
> > +            rx = (rx << 8) | byte;
> >
> >              /* Remove 8 bits from the actual burst */
> >              tx_burst -= 8;
> >              s->burst_length -= 8;
> > -            index++;
> >          }
>
> This version of the loop definitely looks a lot neater. However,
> looking at the code I don't think there's anything that forces the
> guest to set a burst length that's a multiple of 8, so you need
> to handle that somehow. Otherwise on the last time through the
> loop (tx_burst - 8) can be negative, which is undefined behaviour
> when you try to shift by it.

Yes, that's why I added a patch to log the unimplemented behavior to
notify the user.

> I think just rounding tx_burst up to a multiple of 8 before
> the start of the loop would do the right thing ?

Probably. Given all flash transfers are normally multiple of 8-bits I
am not sure what the real hardware behavior is when it is not multiple
of 8, but I will try to add something in the next version.

Regards,
Bin