Re: [PATCH 3/8] dmaengine: ste_dma40: Actually write the runtimeconfiguration to registers

From: Lee Jones
Date: Mon Apr 15 2013 - 07:06:13 EST


On Fri, 12 Apr 2013, Rabin Vincent wrote:

> 2013/4/9 Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Someone has spent a fair amount of effort writing a runtime configuration
> > changing algorithm for DMA clients. However, the config appears to never
> > actually make it to hardware. In order for the configuration to take hold
> > we need to issue a d40_config_write(), as this is the routine which writes
> > it into the hardware's registers.
>
> No, it's not. This function is only for initial configuration which
> should only be written when the channel is allocated. In fact, by
> calling it here in runtime_config, you are introducing a serious bug:
> other logical channels on the same physical channel will stop because of
> the SSLNK/SDLNK of the physical channel being zeroed.
>
> The runtime config already makes it the hardware in the existing code,
> via d40_*_cfg().

Sorry Rabin, but the only place I can see the config being written is
in d40_config_write().

Can you paste the line of code in d40_*_cfg() which actually writes
the config to hardware please? I don't see it.

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