Re: [PATCH 2/5] spi: move splitting transfers to spi_optimize_message()

From: Jonathan Cameron
Date: Tue Feb 13 2024 - 12:36:30 EST


On Mon, 12 Feb 2024 17:26:42 -0600
David Lechner <dlechner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Splitting transfers is an expensive operation so we can potentially
> optimize it by doing it only once per optimization of the message
> instead of repeating each time the message is transferred.
>
> The transfer splitting functions are currently the only user of
> spi_res_alloc() so spi_res_release() can be safely moved at this time
> from spi_finalize_current_message() to spi_unoptimize_message().
>
> The doc comments of the public functions for splitting transfers are
> also updated so that callers will know when it is safe to call them
> to ensure proper resource management.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Lechner <dlechner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
Trivial thing (which applies equally to the original code).
Otherwise LGTM.
FWIW
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>

> +/**
> + * spi_split_transfers - generic handling of transfer splitting
> + * @msg: the message to split
> + *
> + * Under certain conditions, a SPI controller may not support arbitrary
> + * transfer sizes or other features required by a peripheral. This function
> + * will split the transfers in the message into smaller transfers that are
> + * supported by the controller.
> + *
> + * Controllers with special requirements not covered here can also split
> + * transfers in the optimize_message() callback.
> + *
> + * Context: can sleep
> + * Return: zero on success, else a negative error code
> + */
> +static int spi_split_transfers(struct spi_message *msg)
> +{
> + struct spi_controller *ctlr = msg->spi->controller;
> + struct spi_transfer *xfer;
> + int ret;
> +
> + /*
> + * If an SPI controller does not support toggling the CS line on each
> + * transfer (indicated by the SPI_CS_WORD flag) or we are using a GPIO
> + * for the CS line, we can emulate the CS-per-word hardware function by
> + * splitting transfers into one-word transfers and ensuring that
> + * cs_change is set for each transfer.
> + */
> + if ((msg->spi->mode & SPI_CS_WORD) && (!(ctlr->mode_bits & SPI_CS_WORD) ||
> + spi_is_csgpiod(msg->spi))) {
if ((msg->spi->mode & SPI_CS_WORD) &&
(!(ctlr->mode_bits & SPI_CS_WORD) || spi_is_csgpiod(msg->spi))) {

Seems easier to read to me. I appreciate you are just moving it though so
don't mind that much if you leave it in the original form.



> + ret = spi_split_transfers_maxwords(ctlr, msg, 1);
> + if (ret)
> + return ret;
> +
> + list_for_each_entry(xfer, &msg->transfers, transfer_list) {
> + /* Don't change cs_change on the last entry in the list */
> + if (list_is_last(&xfer->transfer_list, &msg->transfers))
> + break;
> +
> + xfer->cs_change = 1;
> + }
> + } else {
> + ret = spi_split_transfers_maxsize(ctlr, msg,
> + spi_max_transfer_size(msg->spi));
> + if (ret)
> + return ret;
> + }
> +
> + return 0;
> +}