Am 16.09.19 um 16:17 schrieb Lucas Stach: > On Mi, 2019-09-11 at 16:49 +0200, Philipp Puschmann wrote: >> BD_DONE flag marks ownership of the buffer. When 1 SDMA owns the buffer, >> when 0 ARM owns it. When processing the buffers in >> sdma_update_channel_loop the ownership of the currently processed buffer >> was set to SDMA again before running the callback function of the the >> buffer and while the sdma script may be running in parallel. So there was >> the possibility to get the buffer overwritten by SDMA before it has been >> processed by kernel leading to kind of random errors in the upper layers, >> e.g. bluetooth. >> >> It may be further a good idea to make the status struct member volatile or >> access it using writel or similar to rule out that the compiler sets the >> BD_DONE flag before the callback routine has finished. >> >> Signed-off-by: Philipp Puschmann <philipp.puschmann@xxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> drivers/dma/imx-sdma.c | 3 ++- >> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/dma/imx-sdma.c b/drivers/dma/imx-sdma.c >> index a01f4b5d793c..1abb14ff394d 100644 >> --- a/drivers/dma/imx-sdma.c >> +++ b/drivers/dma/imx-sdma.c >> @@ -802,7 +802,6 @@ static void sdma_update_channel_loop(struct sdma_channel *sdmac) >> */ >> >> desc->chn_real_count = bd->mode.count; >> - bd->mode.status |= BD_DONE; >> bd->mode.count = desc->period_len; >> desc->buf_ptail = desc->buf_tail; >> desc->buf_tail = (desc->buf_tail + 1) % desc->num_bd; >> @@ -817,6 +816,8 @@ static void sdma_update_channel_loop(struct sdma_channel *sdmac) >> dmaengine_desc_get_callback_invoke(&desc->vd.tx, NULL); >> spin_lock(&sdmac->vc.lock); > > To address your comment from the second paragraph of the commit message > there should be a dma_wmb() here before changing the status flag. > > Regards, > Lucas Hi Lucas, thanks for your feedback. I will apply the hints to v2 of the patches. Regards, Philipp > >> + bd->mode.status |= BD_DONE; >> + >> if (error) >> sdmac->status = old_status; >> } >