SPI Features

SPI Master

SPI Bus Lock

To realize the multiplexing of different devices from different drivers (SPI Master, SPI Flash, etc.), an SPI bus lock is applied on each SPI bus. Drivers can attach their devices onto the bus with the arbitration of the lock.

Each bus lock are initialized with a BG (background) service registered, all devices request to do transactions on the bus should wait until the BG to be successfully disabled.

  • For SPI1 bus, the BG is the cache, the bus lock will help to disable the cache before device operations starts, and enable it again after device releasing the lock. No devices on SPI1 is allowed using ISR (it’s meaningless for the task to yield to other tasks when the cache is disabled).

    There are quite a few limitations when using SPI Master driver on the SPI1 bus, see Notes on Using the SPI Master driver on SPI1 Bus.

  • For other buses, the driver may register its ISR as the BG. The bus lock will block a device task when it requests for exclusive use of the bus, try to disable the ISR, and unblock the device task allowed to exclusively use the bus when the ISR is successfully disabled. When the task releases the lock, the lock will also try to resume the ISR if there are pending transactions to be done in the ISR.