On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 08:58:58PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> The rx path of the 8250_dma user in the RX-timeout case:
> - it starts the RX transfer
> - if the rx-timeout interrupt occures, it dmaengine_pause() the transfer
> - step two is dmaengine_terminate_all() on this channel.
Okay after this whole channel needs to be reset, which means all the
descriptors are discared.
> - based on dmaengine_tx_status() it learns the number of transfered
> bytes.
> - the rx interrupt occures,
why, channel is terminated, so existing txn needs to be aborted too
> it does not start the RX-transfer because
> according to dmaengine_tx_status() the status of the current transfer
> is still DMA_IN_PROGRESS because the earlier dmaengine_terminate_all()
> did not reset this.
there is no current transfer anymore
> - on rx-timeout it invokes dmaengine_pause() again. This time, it
> segfaults because the channel has no descriptor yet.
>
> To make the upper case work better, this patch adds dma_cookie_complete()
> to complete the cookie. Also it adds is an additional check for echan->edesc
> in case the channel has no descriptor assigned.
I think we are fixing the behvaiour rather than cause. terminate_all(()
needs to do a proper cleanup of the channel
And this looks a series, without cover letter sent to all. Which makes it a
bit hard to see what is getting done
--
~Vinod
>
> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelf@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: dmaengine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/dma/edma.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/edma.c b/drivers/dma/edma.c
> index d08c4de..ff05dd4 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/edma.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/edma.c
> @@ -256,6 +256,7 @@ static int edma_terminate_all(struct edma_chan *echan)
> * echan->edesc is NULL and exit.)
> */
> if (echan->edesc) {
> + dma_cookie_complete(&echan->edesc->vdesc.tx);
> echan->edesc = NULL;
> edma_stop(echan->ch_num);
> }
> @@ -282,7 +283,7 @@ static int edma_slave_config(struct edma_chan *echan,
> static int edma_dma_pause(struct edma_chan *echan)
> {
> /* Pause/Resume only allowed with cyclic mode */
> - if (!echan->edesc->cyclic)
> + if (!echan->edesc || !echan->edesc->cyclic)
> return -EINVAL;
>
> edma_pause(echan->ch_num);
> --
> 2.0.1
>
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