Re: [PATCH v11 03/10] spi: Add multi-cs memories support in SPI core

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

Hi,

On Sat, Nov 25, 2023 at 02:51:30PM +0530, Amit Kumar Mahapatra wrote:
> AMD-Xilinx GQSPI controller has two advanced mode that allows the
> controller to consider two flashes as one single device.
> 
> One of these two mode is the parallel mode in which each byte of data is
> stored in both devices, the even bits in the lower flash & the odd bits in
> the upper flash. The byte split is automatically handled by the QSPI
> controller.
> 
> The other mode is the stacked mode in which both the flashes share the
> same SPI bus but each of the device contain half of the data. In this mode,
> the controller does not follow CS requests but instead internally wires the
> two CS levels with the value of the most significant address bit.
> 
> For supporting both these modes SPI core need to be updated for providing
> multiple CS for a single SPI device.
> 
> For adding multi CS support the SPI device need to be aware of all the CS
> values. So, the "chip_select" member in the spi_device structure is now an
> array that holds all the CS values.
> 
> spi_device structure now has a "cs_index_mask" member. This acts as an
> index to the chip_select array. If nth bit of spi->cs_index_mask is set
> then the driver would assert spi->chip_select[n].
> 
> In parallel mode all the chip selects are asserted/de-asserted
> simultaneously and each byte of data is stored in both devices, the even
> bits in one, the odd bits in the other. The split is automatically handled
> by the GQSPI controller. The GQSPI controller supports a maximum of two
> flashes connected in parallel mode. A SPI_CONTROLLER_MULTI_CS flag bit is
> added in the spi controller flags, through ctlr->flags the spi core
> will make sure that the controller is capable of handling multiple chip
> selects at once.
> 
> For supporting multiple CS via GPIO the cs_gpiod member of the spi_device
> structure is now an array that holds the gpio descriptor for each
> chipselect.
> 
> CS GPIO is not tested on our hardware, but it has been tested by @Stefan
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/005001da1efc$619ad5a0$24d080e0$@opensource.cirrus.com/
> 

With this patch in the mainline kernel, two of my qemu emulations
(quanta-q71l-bmc and almetto-bmc) fail to instantiate the first SPI
controller and thus fail to boot from SPI. The error message is

[    3.006458] spi_master spi0: No. of CS is more than max. no. of supported CS
[    3.006775] spi_master spi0: Failed to create SPI device for /ahb/spi@1e620000/flash@0

The problem is no longer seen after reverting this patch.

Bisect log attached for reference.

Guenter

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