Re: [PATCH v1 4/5] dmaengine: Add driver for NVIDIA Tegra AHB DMA controller

From: Vinod Koul
Date: Thu Sep 28 2017 - 12:19:11 EST


On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 05:35:59PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> On 28.09.2017 17:06, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> > On 28.09.2017 12:29, Vinod Koul wrote:
> >>> + default:
> >>> + return -EINVAL;
> >>> + }
> >>> +
> >>> + ahb_seq = burst << TEGRA_AHBDMA_CHANNEL_AHB_BURST_SHIFT;
> >>> + ahb_seq |= TEGRA_AHBDMA_CHANNEL_ADDR_WRAP;
> >>> + ahb_seq |= TEGRA_AHBDMA_CHANNEL_INTR_ENB;
> >>> +
> >>> + writel_relaxed(ahb_seq,
> >>> + ahbdma_chan->regs + TEGRA_AHBDMA_CHANNEL_AHB_SEQ);
> >>> +
> >>> + writel_relaxed(ahb_addr,
> >>> + ahbdma_chan->regs + TEGRA_AHBDMA_CHANNEL_AHB_PTR);
> >>
> >> oh no, you don't write to HW here. This can be called anytime when you have
> >> txn running! You should save these and use them in prep_ calls.
> >>
> >
> > BTW, some of the DMA drivers have exactly the same problem. I now see that it is
> > actually documented explicitly in provider.txt, but that's inconsistent across
> > the actual drivers.
> >
>
> Also, shouldn't prep_ and dma_slave_config be protected with locking? I don't
> see DMA core doing any locking and seems none of the drivers too.

In prep when you modify the list yes (with vchan I suspect that maybe taken
care), but in general yes driver needs to do that

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~Vinod