In hardware cyclic mode the submitted segment is repeated. This means hardware cyclic mode can only be used if the transfer has a single segment. Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/dma/dma-axi-dmac.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/dma/dma-axi-dmac.c b/drivers/dma/dma-axi-dmac.c index 7f0b9aa15867..eb289aa187dd 100644 --- a/drivers/dma/dma-axi-dmac.c +++ b/drivers/dma/dma-axi-dmac.c @@ -220,9 +220,11 @@ static void axi_dmac_start_transfer(struct axi_dmac_chan *chan) /* * If the hardware supports cyclic transfers and there is no callback to - * call, enable hw cyclic mode to avoid unnecessary interrupts. + * call and only a single segment, enable hw cyclic mode to avoid + * unnecessary interrupts. */ - if (chan->hw_cyclic && desc->cyclic && !desc->vdesc.tx.callback) + if (chan->hw_cyclic && desc->cyclic && !desc->vdesc.tx.callback && + desc->num_sgs == 1) flags |= AXI_DMAC_FLAG_CYCLIC; axi_dmac_write(dmac, AXI_DMAC_REG_X_LENGTH, sg->x_len - 1); -- 2.11.0 -- 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