Re: [RFC 4/7] mfd: ocelot-spi: Change the regmap stride to reflect the real one
From: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
Date: 2023-03-30 09:53:33
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On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 10:56:05 -0700 Colin Foster [off-list ref] wrote:
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On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 08:48:18AM -0700, Colin Foster wrote:quoted
Hi Maxime, On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 01:48:17PM +0100, Maxime Chevallier wrote:quoted
Hello Andrew, On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:11:07 +0100 Andrew Lunn [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
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.reg_bits = 24, - .reg_stride = 4, + .reg_stride = 1, .reg_shift = REGMAP_DOWNSHIFT(2), .val_bits = 32,This does not look like a bisectable change? Or did it never work before?Actually this works in all cases because of "regmap: check for alignment on translated register addresses" in this series. Before this series, I think using a stride of 1 would have worked too, as any 4-byte-aligned accesses are also 1-byte aligned. But that's also why I need review on this, my understanding is that reg_stride is used just as a check for alignment, and I couldn't test this ocelot-related patch on the real HW, so please take it with a grain of salt :(You're exactly right. reg_stride wasn't used anywhere in the ocelot-spi path before this patch series. When I build against patch 3 ("regmap: allow upshifting register addresses before performing operations") ocelot-spi breaks. [ 3.207711] ocelot-soc spi0.0: error -EINVAL: Error initializing SPI bus When I build against the whole series, or even just up to patch 4 ("mfd: ocelot-spi: Change the regmap stride to reflect the real one") functionality returns. If you keep patch 4 and apply it before patch 2, everything should work.I replied too soon, before looking more into patch 2. Some context from that patch:--- a/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c +++ b/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c@@ -2016,7 +2016,7 @@ int regmap_write(struct regmap *map, unsignedint reg, unsigned int val) { int ret; - if (!IS_ALIGNED(reg, map->reg_stride)) + if (!IS_ALIGNED(regmap_reg_addr(map, reg), map->reg_stride)) return -EINVAL; map->lock(map->lock_arg); I don't know whether checking IS_ALIGNED before or after the shift is the right thing to do. My initial intention was to perform the shift at the last possible moment before calling into the read / write routines. That way it wouldn't interfere with any underlying regcache mechanisms (which aren't used by ocelot-spi) But to me it seems like patch 2 changes this expected behavior, so the two patches should be squashed. ... Thinking more about it ... In ocelot-spi, at the driver layer, we're accessing two registers. They'd be at address 0x71070000 and 0x71070004. The driver uses those addresses, so there's a stride of 4. I can't access 0x71070001. The fact that the translation from "address" to "bits that go out the SPI bus" shifts out the last two bits and hacks off a couple of the MSBs doesn't seem like it should affect the 'reg_stride'. So maybe patches 2 and 4 should be dropped, and your patch 6 alterra_tse_main should use a reg_stride of 1? That has a subtle benefit of not needing an additional operation or two from regmap_reg_addr(). Would that cause any issues? Hopefully there isn't something I'm missing.
Well here I guess it's also about the semantic of reg_stride. Should it represent the alignment constraints of the register address we feed as an input to a regmap_read/regmap_write operation, or the alignment constraints of the underlying bus ? This is kind of a new concern, as we are now translating register addresses. I asked myself the same question, so I'm very open for discussion, but my gut feeling is that the reg_stride is there to make sure we don't perform an access whose alignment won't work with the bus we are using, so using a stride of 1 on a memory-mapped device with 2 or 4 byte register alignment is a bit counter-intuitive. Thanks a lot for the review, suggestions and tests ! Best regards, Maxime
(Aside: I'm now curious how the compiler will optimize regmap_reg_addr()) Colin