From f3ca4834ac335bbf693d424326e4c93523a0c245 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 23:05:58 +1000 Subject: fsi/fsi-master-gpio: Delay sampling of FSI data input Most SoC GPIO implementations, including the Aspeed one, have synchronizers on the GPIO inputs. This means that the value read from a GPIO is a couple of clocks old, from whatever clock source feeds those synchronizers. In practice, this means that in no-delay mode, we are using a value that can potentially be a bit too old and too close to the clock edge establishing the data on the other side of the link. The voltage converters we use on some systems make this worse and sensitive to things like voltage fluctuations etc... This is, we believe, the cause of occasional CRC errors encountered during heavy activity on the LPC bus. This is fixed by introducing a dummy GPIO read before the actual data read. It slows down SBEFIFO by about 15% (less than any delay primitive) and the end result is so far solid. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Reviewed-by: Christopher Bostic Tested-by: Joel Stanley --- drivers/fsi/fsi-master-gpio.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers/fsi') diff --git a/drivers/fsi/fsi-master-gpio.c b/drivers/fsi/fsi-master-gpio.c index bd2b2cbd5eb5..e1bde9e3f855 100644 --- a/drivers/fsi/fsi-master-gpio.c +++ b/drivers/fsi/fsi-master-gpio.c @@ -97,6 +97,11 @@ static int sda_clock_in(struct fsi_master_gpio *master) if (!master->no_delays) ndelay(FSI_GPIO_STD_DLY); gpiod_set_value(master->gpio_clk, 0); + + /* Dummy read to feed the synchronizers */ + gpiod_get_value(master->gpio_data); + + /* Actual data read */ in = gpiod_get_value(master->gpio_data); if (!master->no_delays) ndelay(FSI_GPIO_STD_DLY); -- cgit