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Date:   Thu, 5 Nov 2020 23:44:53 +0530
From:   Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@...aro.org>
To:     Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org,
        linux-can@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...gutronix.de,
        Thomas Kopp <thomas.kopp@...rochip.com>
Subject: Re: [net 21/27] can: mcp251xfd: mcp251xfd_regmap_crc_read():
 increase severity of CRC read error messages

On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 05:39:31PM +0100, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
> On 11/5/20 5:24 PM, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> > Hi Marc,
> > 
> > On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 11:06:30PM +0100, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
> >> During debugging it turned out that some people have setups where the SPI
> >> communication is more prone to CRC errors.
> >>
> >> Increase the severity of both the transfer retry and transfer failure message
> >> to give users feedback without the need to recompile the driver with debug
> >> enabled.
> >>
> >> Cc: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@...aro.org>
> >> Cc: Thomas Kopp <thomas.kopp@...rochip.com>
> >> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/20201019190524.1285319-15-mkl@pengutronix.de
> >> Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>
> >> ---
> >>  drivers/net/can/spi/mcp251xfd/mcp251xfd-regmap.c | 16 ++++++++--------
> >>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/net/can/spi/mcp251xfd/mcp251xfd-regmap.c b/drivers/net/can/spi/mcp251xfd/mcp251xfd-regmap.c
> >> index ba25902dd78c..c9ffc5ea2b25 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/net/can/spi/mcp251xfd/mcp251xfd-regmap.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/net/can/spi/mcp251xfd/mcp251xfd-regmap.c
> >> @@ -330,17 +330,17 @@ mcp251xfd_regmap_crc_read(void *context,
> >>  			goto out;
> >>  		}
> >>  
> >> -		netdev_dbg(priv->ndev,
> >> -			   "CRC read error at address 0x%04x (length=%zd, data=%*ph, CRC=0x%04x) retrying.\n",
> >> -			   reg, val_len, (int)val_len, buf_rx->data,
> >> -			   get_unaligned_be16(buf_rx->data + val_len));
> >> -	}
> >> -
> >> -	if (err) {
> >>  		netdev_info(priv->ndev,
> >> -			    "CRC read error at address 0x%04x (length=%zd, data=%*ph, CRC=0x%04x).\n",
> >> +			    "CRC read error at address 0x%04x (length=%zd, data=%*ph, CRC=0x%04x) retrying.\n",
> >>  			    reg, val_len, (int)val_len, buf_rx->data,
> >>  			    get_unaligned_be16(buf_rx->data + val_len));
> > 
> > I'm not finding this inner debug log useful. Does the user really care
> > about the iterations it took to read a register? Just throwing the error
> > after max try seems better to me.
> 
> Bitflips on the SPI should not happen, at least not regularly. Even with my
> breadboard setup and max SPI frequency, I don't see any SPI CRC errors, unless
> there is bad cabling. Then a retry most of the times helps and the user doesn't
> notice. This drops performance...Yes logging drop performance, too, but at least
> someone will notice.
> 
> My rationale was to give the user feedback and not cover a potential problem.
> The driver is new and probably not widely used and I have no idea how often it
> runs into read-CRC problems in production use.
> 

Okay. Let's see if anyone complain ;)

Reviewed-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@...aro.org>

Thanks,
Mani

> Marc
> 
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