On Tuesday 13 of August 2013 21:18:16 Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 07:55:47PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > I'm still debugging what's going on here - the basic refcounting all
> > looks OK in the SPI driver, I can see it requesting and releasing with
> > the refcounts all going back to zero in the DMA driver as expected but
> > when we come back to the device later on dmaengine is deciding the
> > device is unavailable quite early on in the process.
>
> The failure is happening because this check is failing:
>
> /* devices with multiple channels need special handling as we need
to
> * ensure that all channels are either private or public.
> */
> if (dev->chancnt > 1 && !dma_has_cap(DMA_PRIVATE, dev->cap_mask))
> list_for_each_entry(chan, &dev->channels, device_node) {
> /* some channels are already publicly allocated */
> if (chan->client_count) {
>
> which is happening because dma1chan0 (which is on the same DMA
> controller as the SPI controller) and in fact every other DMA channel
> had references grabbed by the network stack dmaengine helpers which I'd
> enabled in config. The fact that they do that is unhelpful, it renders
> the API mostly useless, but is nothing to do with this series.
>
> Having tweaked the config everything appears to work so:
>
> Tested-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> though the whole thing with the filter function is as I say a bit fun
> from a code review point of view.
I believe you just found another brokenness of current DMA channel
matching.
Thanks for testing.
Best regards,
Tomasz
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