[PATCH v16 5/7] spi: pxa2xx: disable DMA for Apple MacBook8,1

Shih-Yuan Lee fourdollars at debian.org
Mon Jul 20 09:21:14 PDT 2026


On MacBook8,1 (early 2015 12" MacBook), the LPSS SPI controller at
00:15.4 suffers from hardware DMA handshake failures and interrupt
routing bugs, causing keyboard/touchpad transactions to fail when
DMA is enabled.

Move the forced PIO mode DMI quirk to spi-pxa2xx-pci.c (the LPSS host
controller PCI glue driver) to avoid layering violations in client
drivers (such as applespi).

Add an explicit DMI match table for MacBook8,1 and a module parameter
spi_pxa2xx_force_pio to allow forcing PIO mode on demand.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108331
Signed-off-by: Shih-Yuan Lee <fourdollars at debian.org>
---
 drivers/spi/spi-pxa2xx-pci.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-pxa2xx-pci.c b/drivers/spi/spi-pxa2xx-pci.c
index cae77ac18520..31bdaa096d9e 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi-pxa2xx-pci.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi-pxa2xx-pci.c
@@ -18,9 +18,14 @@
 
 #include <linux/dmaengine.h>
 #include <linux/platform_data/dma-dw.h>
+#include <linux/dmi.h>
 
 #include "spi-pxa2xx.h"
 
+static bool spi_pxa2xx_force_pio;
+module_param_named(force_pio, spi_pxa2xx_force_pio, bool, 0444);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(force_pio, "Force PIO mode (disables DMA) for SPI transfers. ([0] = disabled, 1 = enabled)");
+
 #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_QUARK_X1000		0x0935
 #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_BYT			0x0f0e
 #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_MRFLD		0x1194
@@ -93,6 +98,32 @@ static void lpss_dma_put_device(void *dma_dev)
 	pci_dev_put(dma_dev);
 }
 
+static const struct dmi_system_id pxa2xx_spi_pci_dmi_table[] = {
+	{
+		.ident = "Apple MacBook8,1",
+		.matches = {
+			DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Apple Inc."),
+			DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "MacBook8,1"),
+		},
+	},
+	{ }
+};
+
+static bool pxa2xx_spi_pci_can_dma(struct pci_dev *dev)
+{
+	if (spi_pxa2xx_force_pio) {
+		pci_info(dev, "Forcing PIO mode (disabling DMA)\n");
+		return false;
+	}
+
+	if (dmi_check_system(pxa2xx_spi_pci_dmi_table)) {
+		pci_info(dev, "MacBook8,1 detected: disabling DMA to force PIO mode\n");
+		return false;
+	}
+
+	return true;
+}
+
 static int lpss_spi_setup(struct pci_dev *dev, struct pxa2xx_spi_controller *c)
 {
 	struct ssp_device *ssp = &c->ssp;
@@ -166,7 +197,7 @@ static int lpss_spi_setup(struct pci_dev *dev, struct pxa2xx_spi_controller *c)
 
 	c->dma_filter = lpss_dma_filter;
 	c->dma_burst_size = 1;
-	c->enable_dma = 1;
+	c->enable_dma = pxa2xx_spi_pci_can_dma(dev);
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -238,7 +269,7 @@ static int mrfld_spi_setup(struct pci_dev *dev, struct pxa2xx_spi_controller *c)
 
 	c->dma_filter = lpss_dma_filter;
 	c->dma_burst_size = 8;
-	c->enable_dma = 1;
+	c->enable_dma = pxa2xx_spi_pci_can_dma(dev);
 	return 0;
 }
 
-- 
2.39.5




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