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    spi: fsl-dspi: avoid SCK glitches with continuous transfers · c5c31fb7
    Vladimir Oltean authored
    The DSPI controller has configurable timing for
    
    (a) tCSC: the interval between the assertion of the chip select and the
        first clock edge
    
    (b) tASC: the interval between the last clock edge and the deassertion
        of the chip select
    
    What is a bit surprising, but is documented in the figure "Example of
    continuous transfer (CPHA=1, CONT=1)" in the datasheet, is that when the
    chip select stays asserted between multiple TX FIFO writes, the tCSC and
    tASC times still apply. With CONT=1, chip select remains asserted, but
    SCK takes a break and goes to the idle state for tASC + tCSC ns.
    
    In other words, the default values (of 0 and 0 ns) result in SCK
    glitches where the SCK transition to the idle state, as well as the SCK
    transition from the idle state, will have no delay in between, and it
    may appear that a SCK cycle has simply gone missing. The resulting
    timing violation might cause data corruption in many peripherals, as
    their chip select is asserted.
    
    The driver has device tree bindings for tCSC ("fsl,spi-cs-sck-delay")
    and tASC ("fsl,spi-sck-cs-delay"), but these are only specified to apply
    when the chip select toggles in the first place, and this timing
    characteristic depends on each peripheral. Many peripherals do not have
    explicit timing requirements, so many device trees do not have these
    properties present at all.
    
    Nonetheless, the lack of SCK glitches is a common sense requirement, and
    since the SCK stays in the idle state during transfers for tCSC+tASC ns,
    and that in itself should look like half a cycle, then let's ensure that
    tCSC and tASC are at least a quarter of a SCK period, such that their
    sum is at least half of one.
    
    Fixes: 95bf15f3 ("spi: fsl-dspi: Add ~50ns delay between cs and sck")
    Reported-by: default avatarLisa Chen (陈敏捷) <minjie.chen@geekplus.com>
    Debugged-by: default avatarLisa Chen (陈敏捷) <minjie.chen@geekplus.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarLisa Chen (陈敏捷) <minjie.chen@geekplus.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarVladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230529223402.1199503-1-vladimir.oltean@nxp.comSigned-off-by: default avatarMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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