A very tiny temporal window exists in the residue calculation where : - upon entering residue calculation, the transfer is ongoing - when reading the current transfer pointer, it just changed to the "finisher/linker" descriptor In this case, the residue returned is the whole transfer length instead of 0. Fix it. This appears almost in one extreme case, where the driver is used by older clients which inquire for residue in interrupt context, such as the smsc91x ethernet driver, in a tight loop : interrupt_handler() dmaengine_submit() do { dmaengine_tx_status() } while (residue > 0 || status != DMA_ERROR) Signed-off-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@xxxxxxx> --- Since v1: reworded the commit message for typos --- drivers/dma/pxa_dma.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/dma/pxa_dma.c b/drivers/dma/pxa_dma.c index 7d3ff56caa0a..51f294e4227c 100644 --- a/drivers/dma/pxa_dma.c +++ b/drivers/dma/pxa_dma.c @@ -1185,6 +1185,16 @@ static unsigned int pxad_residue(struct pxad_chan *chan, else curr = phy_readl_relaxed(chan->phy, DTADR); + /* + * curr has to be actually read before checking descriptor + * completion, so that a curr inside a status updater + * descriptor implies the following test returns true, and + * preventing reordering of curr load and the test. + */ + rmb(); + if (is_desc_completed(vd)) + goto out; + for (i = 0; i < sw_desc->nb_desc - 1; i++) { hw_desc = sw_desc->hw_desc[i]; if (sw_desc->hw_desc[0]->dcmd & PXA_DCMD_INCSRCADDR) -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dmaengine" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html