Re: [PATCH v9 2/3] spi: spacemit: introduce SpacemiT K1 SPI controller driver

From: Alex Elder

Date: Wed Apr 29 2026 - 15:06:26 EST


On 4/27/26 7:17 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
On Mon, Apr 27, 2026 at 10:01:28PM -0400, Guodong Xu wrote:

+static int k1_spi_transfer_one(struct spi_controller *host,
+ struct spi_device *spi,
+ struct spi_transfer *transfer)
+{

+ /* Record how many words the len bytes represent */
+ count = transfer->len / drv_data->bytes;
+ drv_data->rx_resid = count;
+ drv_data->tx_resid = count;

This is setting up _resid with a number of words.

Guodong, see below, but I think the above should be:

drv_data->rx_resid = transfer->len;
drv_data->tx_resid = transfer->len;

+static void k1_spi_write_word(struct k1_spi_driver_data *drv_data)
+{
+ struct spi_transfer *transfer = drv_data->transfer;
+ u32 bytes = drv_data->bytes;
+ u32 val;
+
+ if (transfer->tx_buf) {
+ const void *buf;
+
+ buf = transfer->tx_buf + (transfer->len - drv_data->tx_resid);

This is using _resid as a byte count. It'll be fine for 8 bits per word
(which is by far the most common thing).

You're right, this is a really great observation.

The best thing is probably to just have the *_resid symbols
represent bytes. (Their definitions in the structure say
that as well.)

k1_spi_write_word() decrements tx_resid by the number of
bytes transferred, so that's OK.

But the FIFO handles words, and k1_spi_write() limits the number
of *words* transferred, so the "count" calculation there needs to
take the word size into account. Something like:

/**/ unsigned int resid_words;
unsigned int count;

/* Get the number of open slots in the FIFO; zero means all */
count = FIELD_GET(SSP_STATUS_TFL, val) ? : K1_SPI_FIFO_SIZE;

/*
* Limit how much we try to send at a time, to reduce the
* chance the other side can overrun our RX FIFO.
*/
/**/ resid_words = drv_data->tx_resid / drv_data->bytes;
/**/ count = min3(count, K1_SPI_THRESH, resid_words);
do
k1_spi_write_word(drv_data);
while (--count);

return !drv_data->tx_resid;

And we have the same problem in k1_spi_read(). There you can
probably change this:
count = min(count, drv_data->rx_resid);
to this
count = min(count, drv_data->rx_resid / drv_data->bytes);

You'll want to review and test yourself, but scanning through the
code this is what I see.

-Alex