Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: qcom_hidma: release the descriptor before the callback

From: Sinan Kaya
Date: Mon Aug 22 2016 - 09:27:15 EST


On 8/22/2016 2:08 AM, Vinod Koul wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 01:21:34PM -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote:
>> On 8/19/2016 1:02 PM, Vinod Koul wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 07:13:43AM -0400, okaya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>> On 2016-08-19 01:52, Vinod Koul wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 11:48:52PM -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote:
>>>>>> On 8/18/2016 11:42 PM, Vinod Koul wrote:
>>>>>>> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 11:26:28PM -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 8/18/2016 10:48 PM, Vinod Koul wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Keep a size limited list with error cookies and flush them in terminate all?
>>>>>>>>> I think so, terminate_all anyway cleans up the channel. Btw what is the
>>>>>>>>> behaviour on error? Do you terminate or somthing else?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On error, I flush all outstanding transactions with an error code and I reset
>>>>>>>> the channel. After the reset, the DMA channel is functional again. The client
>>>>>>>> doesn't need to shutdown anything.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You mean from the client context or driver?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The client doesn't need to call device_free_chan_resources and
>>>>>> device_terminate_all
>>>>>> to be specific. Client can certainly call these if it needs to
>>>>>> but it is not
>>>>>> required to recover the channel.
>>>>>
>>>>> You didn't answer my question!
>>>>>
>>>>> On error you said you flush, so who does that?
>>>>
>>>> This is done by the driver in interrupt context when an error
>>>> interrupt is received. All transactions are posted and hw is reset.
>>>
>>> Hmmm, waht about the txn which are pending? DO you clear them..?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, I clear both pending and active transactions.
>
> Okay, in that case your can consider below:
>
> 1. dmaengine asserts error interrupt
> 2. Driver receives and mark's the txn as error
> 3. Driver completes the txn and intimates the client. No further
> submissions. Drop the locks before calling callback, as subsequent
> processing by client maybe in callback thread.
> 4. Client invokes status and you can return error
> 5. On error, client calls terminate_all. You can reset channel, free all
> descriptors in the active, pending and completed lists
> 6. Client prepares new txn and so on..


Just to be clear, you are telling me not to accept any new transactions until
terminate_all is called, right?

>
> Thanks
>


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