linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/8] ARM: dts: at91-sama5d27_wlsom1: Set sst26vf064b SPI NOR flash at its maximum frequency

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Message-ID: <4b8b629b-62f8-8e0d-5de2-9020a955f0e2@linaro.org>
Date:   Tue, 28 Mar 2023 10:36:40 +0100
From:   Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@...aro.org>
To:     Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...rochip.com>, broonie@...nel.org,
        robh+dt@...nel.org, krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org,
        alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com, claudiu.beznea@...rochip.com
Cc:     linux-spi@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] ARM: dts: at91-sama5d27_wlsom1: Set sst26vf064b SPI
 NOR flash at its maximum frequency



On 3/28/23 09:51, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
> Hi Tudor,

Hi!

> 
> On 17/11/2022 at 11:52, Tudor Ambarus wrote:
>> sama5d27-wlsom1 populates an sst26vf064b SPI NOR flash. Its maximum
>> operating frequency for 2.7-3.6V is 104 MHz. As the flash is operated
>> at 3.3V, increase its maximum supported frequency to 104MHz. The
>> increasing of the spi-max-frequency value requires the setting of the
>> "CE# Not Active Hold Time", thus set the spi-cs-setup-ns to a value of 7.
>>
>> The sst26vf064b datasheet specifies just a minimum value for the
>> "CE# Not Active Hold Time" and it advertises it to 5 ns. There's no
>> maximum time specified. I determined experimentally that 5 ns for the
>> spi-cs-setup-ns is not enough when the flash is operated close to its
>> maximum frequency and tests showed that 7 ns is just fine, so set the
>> spi-cs-setup-ns dt property to 7.
>>
>> With the increase of frequency the reads are now faster with ~37%.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@...rochip.com>
>> ---
>>   arch/arm/boot/dts/at91-sama5d27_wlsom1.dtsi | 3 ++-
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/at91-sama5d27_wlsom1.dtsi
>> b/arch/arm/boot/dts/at91-sama5d27_wlsom1.dtsi
>> index 83bcf9fe0152..20caf40b4755 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/at91-sama5d27_wlsom1.dtsi
>> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/at91-sama5d27_wlsom1.dtsi
>> @@ -220,7 +220,8 @@ qspi1_flash: flash@0 {
>>           #size-cells = <1>;
>>           compatible = "jedec,spi-nor";
>>           reg = <0>;
>> -        spi-max-frequency = <80000000>;
>> +        spi-max-frequency = <104000000>;
>> +        spi-cs-setup-ns = /bits/ 16 <7>;
> 
> Following the different changes that happened to this property after
> this post, am I right saying that this must now be changed to:
> 
> spi-cs-setup-delay-ns = <7>;
> 
> ?
> 

Yes, that should do it. I'm amending the series right now. Can you do a
little test on your side so that we make sure everything is in place?
After the update, something like that should be run on any board (maybe
wlsom1-ek?):
#!/bin/sh

dd if=/dev/urandom of=./qspi_test bs=1M count=6
mtd_debug write /dev/mtd5 0 6291456 qspi_test
mtd_debug erase /dev/mtd5 0 6291456
mtd_debug read /dev/mtd5 0 6291456 qspi_read
hexdump qspi_read
mtd_debug write /dev/mtd5 0 6291456 qspi_test
mtd_debug read /dev/mtd5 0 6291456 qspi_read
sha1sum qspi_test qspi_read

brb,
ta