[PATCH 2/3] hwrng: st: Report correct FIFO size

Lee Jones lee.jones at linaro.org
Tue Oct 6 07:43:59 PDT 2015


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))
-- 
1.9.1




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