On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 5:09 PM, Måns Rullgård <mans@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On Mon, 2016-01-11 at 13:04 +0000, Mans Rullgard wrote: >>> Cyclic transfer callbacks rely on block completion interrupts which >>> were >>> disabled in commit ff7b05f29fd4 ("dmaengine/dw_dmac: Don't handle >>> block >>> interrupts"). This re-enables block interrupts so the cyclic >>> callbacks >>> can work. Other transfer types are not affected as they set the >>> INT_EN >>> bit only on the last block. >>> >>> Fixes: ff7b05f29fd4 ("dmaengine/dw_dmac: Don't handle block >>> interrupts") >>> Signed-off-by: Mans Rullgard <mans@xxxxxxxxx> >> >> How did you test that? > > With the ABDAC sound driver on the AVR32. It fails rather miserably > without these patches. > >> From my understanding the custom stuff that does cyclic interrupts >> prepares a set of descriptors per period, which at the end of transfer >> will generate XFER interrupt. Next period will go in the same way. >> >> Maybe I missed something. > > The cyclic DMA is done by setting up a set of descriptors, one per > period, with the last linked back to the first. The chain never ends, > so there is never an XFER interrupt. Thanks for clarification. Nevertheless, my plan is to get rid of custom implementation of the cyclic API in this driver, thus, I would suggest to have this patch only for stable and as interim for mainline. -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko -- 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