Re: [PATCH 1/2] dmaengine: ti: k3-udma: Respond TX done if DMA_PREP_INTERRUPT is not requested

[Péter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 22/08/2022 12:15, Vaishnav Achath wrote:
> When the DMA consumer driver does not expect the callback for TX done,
> There is no need to perform the channel RT byte counter calculations 
> and estimate the completion but return complete on first attempt itself.
> This assumes that the consumer who did not request DMA_PREP_INTERRUPT 
> has its own mechanism for understanding TX completion, example: MCSPI
> EOW interrupt can be used as TX completion signal for a SPI transaction.

The check is in place to make sure that we don't leave stale data in the
DMA fabric.
If you drop the check then it is going to be possible that some TX data
is going to be lost.
Could be one out of 10K transfers or 100K, but if that happens it is not
going to be easy to figure out.
Let's say we go the packet back, but PDMA is still have data to send and
the IP stops transmitting (externally clocked bus, some delay, etc).
Is it going to be OK to disable the channel?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Vaishnav Achath <vaishnav.a@xxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/dma/ti/k3-udma.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/ti/k3-udma.c b/drivers/dma/ti/k3-udma.c
> index 39b330ada200..03d579068453 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/ti/k3-udma.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/ti/k3-udma.c
> @@ -263,6 +263,7 @@ struct udma_chan_config {
>  	enum udma_tp_level channel_tpl; /* Channel Throughput Level */
>  
>  	u32 tr_trigger_type;
> +	unsigned long tx_flags;
>  
>  	/* PKDMA mapped channel */
>  	int mapped_channel_id;
> @@ -1057,7 +1058,7 @@ static bool udma_is_desc_really_done(struct udma_chan *uc, struct udma_desc *d)
>  
>  	/* Only TX towards PDMA is affected */
>  	if (uc->config.ep_type == PSIL_EP_NATIVE ||
> -	    uc->config.dir != DMA_MEM_TO_DEV)
> +	    uc->config.dir != DMA_MEM_TO_DEV || !(uc->config.tx_flags & DMA_PREP_INTERRUPT))
>  		return true;
>  
>  	peer_bcnt = udma_tchanrt_read(uc, UDMA_CHAN_RT_PEER_BCNT_REG);
> @@ -3418,6 +3419,8 @@ udma_prep_slave_sg(struct dma_chan *chan, struct scatterlist *sgl,
>  	if (!burst)
>  		burst = 1;
>  
> +	uc->config.tx_flags = tx_flags;
> +
>  	if (uc->config.pkt_mode)
>  		d = udma_prep_slave_sg_pkt(uc, sgl, sglen, dir, tx_flags,
>  					   context);

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