Re: [PATCH] ep93xx: Implement double buffering for M2M DMA channels

From: Mika Westerberg
Date: Tue Apr 10 2012 - 13:29:49 EST


On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:09:50AM -0500, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> On Friday, March 23, 2012 12:05 AM, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 09:19:10PM -0500, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> >
> >> Did you test this patch or just review it?
> >
> > I tested and reviewed it.
>
> OK. What kernel? My tests so far have been with 3.3.
>
> >> On my system it doesn't work. I think it has something to do with the
> >> changes to m2m_hw_interrupt but I haven't tracked it down yet.
> >>
> >> It looks like what's missing is a:
> >>
> >> edmac->edma->hw_submit(edmac);
> >>
> >> But, maybe that's not needed with double buffering?
> >
> > Did you try without your patch and adding my VIC hack? That's what I did when
> > I first got this patch and I saw no problems. I tested with audio (M2P),
> > mmc_spi (M2M) and dmatest (M2M).
>
> No, I have not applied your VIC hack.
>
> Until we get a working solution, without any hacks, I don't want this to go in.

Now that the spurious interrupts thing with VIC has been sorted out, should we
revisit this patch? Hartley, do you have any objections merging this?
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