This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
dmaengine: at_xdmac: align descriptors on 64 bits
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
dmaengine-at_xdmac-align-descriptors-on-64-bits.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 4a9723e8df68cfce4048517ee32e37f78854b6fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 16:54:08 +0200
Subject: dmaengine: at_xdmac: align descriptors on 64 bits
From: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 4a9723e8df68cfce4048517ee32e37f78854b6fb upstream.
Having descriptors aligned on 64 bits allows update CNDA and CUBC in an
atomic way.
Signed-off-by: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@xxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: e1f7c9eee707 ("dmaengine: at_xdmac: creation of the atmel
eXtended DMA Controller driver")
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/dma/at_xdmac.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/dma/at_xdmac.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/at_xdmac.c
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ struct at_xdmac_lld {
u32 mbr_dus; /* Destination Microblock Stride Register */
};
-
+/* 64-bit alignment needed to update CNDA and CUBC registers in an atomic way. */
struct at_xdmac_desc {
struct at_xdmac_lld lld;
enum dma_transfer_direction direction;
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ struct at_xdmac_desc {
unsigned int xfer_size;
struct list_head descs_list;
struct list_head xfer_node;
-};
+} __aligned(sizeof(u64));
static inline void __iomem *at_xdmac_chan_reg_base(struct at_xdmac *atxdmac, unsigned int chan_nb)
{
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ludovic.desroches@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/dmaengine-at_xdmac-fix-residue-corruption.patch
queue-4.4/dmaengine-at_xdmac-double-fifo-flush-needed-to-compute-residue.patch
queue-4.4/dmaengine-at_xdmac-align-descriptors-on-64-bits.patch
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