Hi Morimoto-san, On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 5:34 AM, Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@xxxxxxxxxxx> Thanks for your patch! > SYS/RT/Audio DMAC includes independent data buffers for reading > and writing. Therefore, the read transfer counter and write transfer > counter have different values. > TCR indicates read counter, and TCRB indicates write counter. > The relationship is like below. > > TCR TCRB > [SOURCE] -> [DMAC] -> [SINK] > > In the MEM_TO_DEV direction, what really matters is how much data has > been written to the device. If the DMA is interrupted between read and > write, then, the data doesn't end up in the destination, so shouldn't > be counted. TCRB is thus the register we should use in this cases. > > In the DEV_TO_MEM direction, the situation is more complex. Both the > read and write side are important. What matters from a data consumer > point of view is how much data has been written to memory. > On the other hand, if the transfer is interrupted between read and > write, we'll end up losing data. It can also be important to report. > > In the MEM_TO_MEM direction, what matters is of course how much data > has been written to memory from data consumer point of view. > Here, because read and write have independent data buffers, it will > take a while for TCR and TCRB to become equal. Thus we should check > TCRB in this case, too. > > Thus, all cases we should check TCRB instead of TCR. > > Without this patch, Sound Capture has noise after PluseAudio support PulseAudio > (= 07b7acb51d2 ("ASoC: rsnd: update pointer more accurate")), because > the recorder will use wrong residue counter which indicates transferred > from sound device, but in reality the data was not yet put to memory > and recorder will record it. > > However, because DMAC is buffering data until it can be transferable > size, TCRB might not be updated. > For example, if consumer doesn't know how much data can be receaved, received > it requests enough size to DMAC. But in reality, it might receave very receive > few data. In such case, DMAC just buffered it untile transferable size, until > and no TCRB updated. > > In such case, this buffered data will be transferred if CHCR::DE bit was > cleared, and this is happen if rcar_dmac_chan_halt(). In other word, it > happen when consumer called dmaengine_terminate_all(). > > Because of this behavior, it need to flush buffered data when it returns > "residue" (= dmaengine_tx_status()). > Otherwise, consumer might calculate wrong things if it called > dmaengine_tx_status() and dmaengine_terminate_all() consecutively. > > Tested-by: Hiroyuki Yokoyama <hiroyuki.yokoyama.vx@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Tested-by: Ryo Kodama <ryo.kodama.vz@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@xxxxxxxxxxx> My serial console is happy again (on Koelsch and Salvator-XS), so: Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> > --- a/drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c > +++ b/drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c > @@ -761,6 +761,23 @@ static void rcar_dmac_chcr_de_barrier(struct rcar_dmac_chan *chan) > dev_err(chan->chan.device->dev, "CHCR DE check error\n"); > } > > +static void rcar_dmac_sync_tcr(struct rcar_dmac_chan *chan) > +{ > + u32 chcr = rcar_dmac_chan_read(chan, RCAR_DMACHCR); > + > + if (!(chcr & RCAR_DMACHCR_DE)) > + return; > + > + /* set DE=0 and flush remaining data */ > + rcar_dmac_chan_write(chan, RCAR_DMACHCR, (chcr & ~RCAR_DMACHCR_DE)); > + > + /* make sure all remaining data was fulshed */ flushed Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- 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