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From: Siarhei Siamashka <siarhei.siamashka@gmail.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 03/10] sunxi: Remove mmc DMA support
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 20:35:50 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140723203550.14aaa8e6@i7> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1402306622-18485-4-git-send-email-hdegoede@redhat.com>

On Mon,  9 Jun 2014 11:36:55 +0200
Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> wrote:

> The DMA code in sunxi_mmc.c is broken. mmc_trans_data_by_dma() allocates the
> dma descriptors on the stack, and then exits while the dma transfer is in
> progress, so the dma engine is reading stack memory which at that point may
> be re-used. So far we've gotten away with this by luck, but recent u-boot
> changes have shifted the stack start address by 16 bytes, which combined
> with dma alignment now exposes this problem.
> 
> Since we end up just busy waiting for the dma engine anyway, this commit
> fixes things by simply removing the dma code, resulting in smaller bug-free
> code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>

Acked-by: Siarhei Siamashka <siarhei.siamashka@gmail.com>

Was it a good idea to keep v2014.07 release relying on luck without
this patch?

-- 
Best regards,
Siarhei Siamashka

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-23 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-09  9:36 [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 00/10] sunxi: Bug fixes, sun4i and sun5i support and network improvements Hans de Goede
2014-06-09  9:36 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 01/10] sunxi: mksunxiboot: Fix loading of files with a size which is not a multiple of 4 Hans de Goede
2014-06-09  9:36 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 02/10] sunxi: Fix u-boot-spl.lds to refer to .vectors Hans de Goede
2014-06-09  9:36 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 03/10] sunxi: Remove mmc DMA support Hans de Goede
2014-07-23 17:35   ` Siarhei Siamashka [this message]
2014-07-26 13:07     ` Hans de Goede
2014-06-09  9:36 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 04/10] sunxi: Implement reset_cpu Hans de Goede
2014-07-23 17:45   ` Siarhei Siamashka
2014-07-26 13:09     ` Hans de Goede
2014-06-09  9:36 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 05/10] sunxi: Add sun4i support Hans de Goede
2014-07-23 17:53   ` Siarhei Siamashka
2014-06-09  9:36 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 06/10] sunxi: Add sun5i support Hans de Goede
2014-07-23 18:02   ` Siarhei Siamashka
2014-07-26 13:11     ` Hans de Goede
2014-06-09  9:36 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 07/10] net: Rename and cleanup sunxi (Allwinner) emac driver Hans de Goede
2014-07-23 18:12   ` Siarhei Siamashka
2014-07-26 13:21     ` Hans de Goede
2014-07-26 13:31       ` Stefan Roese
2014-06-09  9:37 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 08/10] sunxi: Add emac glue, enable emac on the cubieboard Hans de Goede
2014-07-23 18:18   ` Siarhei Siamashka
2014-06-09  9:37 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 09/10] sunxi: Add support for using MII phy-s with the GMAC nic Hans de Goede
2014-07-23 18:20   ` Siarhei Siamashka
2014-06-09  9:37 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 10/10] sunxi: Add Ian Campbell and Hans de Goede as cubietruck board-maintainers Hans de Goede
2014-06-25 19:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 00/10] sunxi: Bug fixes, sun4i and sun5i support and network improvements Ian Campbell
2014-06-26  7:38   ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-27  8:20     ` Stefan Roese
2014-07-06 19:12 ` Ian Campbell
2014-07-06 19:18   ` Albert ARIBAUD
2014-07-06 19:22     ` Ian Campbell
2014-07-06 20:54       ` Albert ARIBAUD
2014-07-06 21:28         ` Ian Campbell
2014-07-07  4:41           ` Wolfgang Denk
2014-07-07 12:50   ` Hans de Goede
2014-07-07 15:10     ` Ian Campbell
2014-07-07 16:47       ` Tom Rini
2014-07-07 20:23         ` Ian Campbell
2014-07-07 20:45           ` Tom Rini
2014-07-08  7:23             ` Ian Campbell
2014-07-08 13:48               ` Tom Rini
2014-07-08  7:48           ` Hans de Goede
2014-07-06 19:26 ` Ian Campbell
2014-07-07 12:53   ` Hans de Goede
2014-07-07 13:06     ` Tom Rini
2014-07-07 15:13     ` Ian Campbell
2014-07-08  7:47       ` Hans de Goede
2014-07-09  8:00         ` Ian Campbell
2014-07-09  8:44           ` Hans de Goede
2014-07-09 13:03           ` Henrik Nordström
2014-07-09 13:56             ` Hans de Goede

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