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[v4,4/6] spi: spi-mem: Allow specifying the byte order in DTR mode

Message ID 20230908064304.27757-5-jaimeliao.tw@gmail.com
State New
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Series Add octal DTR support for Macronix flash | expand

Commit Message

liao jaime Sept. 8, 2023, 6:43 a.m. UTC
From: JaimeLiao <jaimeliao@mxic.com.tw>

There are NOR flashes (Macronix) that swap the bytes on a 16-bit
boundary when configured in Octal DTR mode. The byte order of
16-bit words is swapped when read or written in Octal Double
Transfer Rate (DTR) mode compared to Single Transfer Rate (STR)
modes. If one writes D0 D1 D2 D3 bytes using 1-1-1 mode, and uses
8D-8D-8D SPI mode for reading, it will read back D1 D0 D3 D2.
Swapping the bytes may introduce some endianness problems. It can
affect the boot sequence if the entire boot sequence is not handled
in either 8D-8D-8D mode or 1-1-1 mode. So we must swap the bytes
back to have the same byte order as in STR modes. Fortunately there
are controllers that could swap the bytes back at runtime,
addressing the flash's endiannesses requirements. Provide a way for
the upper layers to specify the byte order in Octal DTR mode.

Merge Tudor's patch and add modifications for suiting newer version
of Linux kernel.

Signed-off-by: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: JaimeLiao <jaimeliao@mxic.com.tw>
---
 drivers/spi/spi-mem.c       | 4 ++++
 include/linux/spi/spi-mem.h | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

Comments

Tudor Ambarus Sept. 20, 2023, 12:47 p.m. UTC | #1
On 08.09.2023 09:43, Jaime Liao wrote:
> From: JaimeLiao <jaimeliao@mxic.com.tw>
> 
> There are NOR flashes (Macronix) that swap the bytes on a 16-bit
> boundary when configured in Octal DTR mode. The byte order of
> 16-bit words is swapped when read or written in Octal Double
> Transfer Rate (DTR) mode compared to Single Transfer Rate (STR)
> modes. If one writes D0 D1 D2 D3 bytes using 1-1-1 mode, and uses
> 8D-8D-8D SPI mode for reading, it will read back D1 D0 D3 D2.
> Swapping the bytes may introduce some endianness problems. It can
> affect the boot sequence if the entire boot sequence is not handled
> in either 8D-8D-8D mode or 1-1-1 mode. So we must swap the bytes
> back to have the same byte order as in STR modes. Fortunately there
> are controllers that could swap the bytes back at runtime,
> addressing the flash's endiannesses requirements. Provide a way for
> the upper layers to specify the byte order in Octal DTR mode.
> 

Jaime,

would you please remind me how this works? Does these flashes always
swap the bytes? Is there a flash configuration register where you can
specify whether to swap the bytes or not?

If it's not configurable I'm thinking of introducing a hook that allows
flashes to program the spi controller to swap the bytes and if the spi
controller does not support byte swapping, to just return an error and
fallback to 8-8-8/1-1-1 mode. We can't break the bootchain.

Cheers,
ta
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-mem.c b/drivers/spi/spi-mem.c
index edd7430d4c05..9c03b5617fff 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi-mem.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi-mem.c
@@ -172,6 +172,10 @@  bool spi_mem_default_supports_op(struct spi_mem *mem,
 		if (!spi_mem_controller_is_capable(ctlr, dtr))
 			return false;
 
+		if (op->data.dtr_swab16 &&
+		    !(spi_mem_controller_is_capable(ctlr, dtr_swab16)))
+			return false;
+
 		if (op->cmd.nbytes != 2)
 			return false;
 	} else {
diff --git a/include/linux/spi/spi-mem.h b/include/linux/spi/spi-mem.h
index 6b0a7dc48a4b..d4935c5c3c7a 100644
--- a/include/linux/spi/spi-mem.h
+++ b/include/linux/spi/spi-mem.h
@@ -89,6 +89,8 @@  enum spi_mem_data_dir {
  * @dummy.dtr: whether the dummy bytes should be sent in DTR mode or not
  * @data.buswidth: number of IO lanes used to send/receive the data
  * @data.dtr: whether the data should be sent in DTR mode or not
+ * @data.dtr_swab16: whether the byte order of 16-bit words is swapped when read
+ *		     or written in Octal DTR mode compared to STR mode.
  * @data.ecc: whether error correction is required or not
  * @data.dir: direction of the transfer
  * @data.nbytes: number of data bytes to send/receive. Can be zero if the
@@ -123,6 +125,7 @@  struct spi_mem_op {
 	struct {
 		u8 buswidth;
 		u8 dtr : 1;
+		u8 dtr_swab16 : 1;
 		u8 ecc : 1;
 		u8 __pad : 6;
 		enum spi_mem_data_dir dir;
@@ -294,10 +297,13 @@  struct spi_controller_mem_ops {
 /**
  * struct spi_controller_mem_caps - SPI memory controller capabilities
  * @dtr: Supports DTR operations
+ * @dtr_swab16: Supports swapping bytes on a 16 bit boundary when configured in
+ *		Octal DTR
  * @ecc: Supports operations with error correction
  */
 struct spi_controller_mem_caps {
 	bool dtr;
+	bool dtr_swab16;
 	bool ecc;
 };