[PATCH 2/3] hwrng: st: Report correct FIFO size
Daniel Thompson
daniel.thompson at linaro.org
Tue Oct 6 08:48:23 PDT 2015
On 06/10/15 15:43, Lee Jones wrote:
> The values supplied to the 'read random data from FIFO' arithmetic
> are not correct. The value fed in to initialise the iterator
> describes the FIFO depth, but then the iterator is treated in
> Bytes and subsequently increased by 2 in value for every read
> word. This means only 4 of the 8 available values are being read
> during each invocation of .read().
>
> This change increased the device bandwidth by a factor of 2.
>
> Reported-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org>
> ---
> drivers/char/hw_random/st-rng.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/st-rng.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/st-rng.c
> index 8c8a435..44480fe 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/st-rng.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/st-rng.c
> @@ -29,8 +29,9 @@
> #define ST_RNG_STATUS_BAD_ALTERNANCE BIT(1)
> #define ST_RNG_STATUS_FIFO_FULL BIT(5)
>
> -#define ST_RNG_FIFO_SIZE 8
> #define ST_RNG_SAMPLE_SIZE 2 /* 2 Byte (16bit) samples */
> +#define ST_RNG_FIFO_DEPTH 8
> +#define ST_RNG_FIFO_SIZE (ST_RNG_FIFO_DEPTH * ST_RNG_SAMPLE_SIZE)
>
> /* Samples are available every 0.667us, which we round to 1us */
> #define ST_RNG_FILL_FIFO_TIMEOUT (1 * (ST_RNG_FIFO_SIZE / ST_RNG_SAMPLE_SIZE))
This change doubles the timeout and doesn't mention it in the changelog.
Changing the order of 2/3 and 3/3 would avoid this.
Other than that:
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson at linaro.org>
Daniel.
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