From: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
To: Andrea Merello <andrea.merello@gmail.com>
Cc: dan.j.williams@intel.com, dmaengine@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, radhey.shyam.pandey@xilinx.com
Subject: dmaengine: fix dmaengine_desc_callback_valid() doesn't check for callback_result
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2019 20:21:10 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190104145110.GF13372@vkoul-mobl.Dlink> (raw)
On 16-11-18, 14:56, Andrea Merello wrote:
> There are two flavors of DMA completion callbacks: callback() and
> callback_result(); the latter takes an additional parameter that carries
> result information.
>
> Most dmaengine helper functions that work with callbacks take care of both
> flavors i.e. dmaengine_desc_get_callback_invoke() first checks for
> callback_result() to be not NULL, and eventually it calls this one;
> otherwise it goes on checking for callback().
>
> It seems however that dmaengine_desc_callback_valid() does not care about
> callback_result(), and it returns false in case callback() is NULL but
> callback_result() is not; unless there is a (hidden to me) reason for doing
> so then I'd say this is wrong.
>
> I've hit this by using a DMA controller driver (xilinx_dma) that doesn't
> trigger any callback invocation unless dmaengine_desc_callback_valid()
> returns true, while I had only callback_result() implemented in my client
> driver (which AFAICT is always fine since dmaengine documentation says that
> callback() will be deprecated).
>
> This patch fixes this by making dmaengine_desc_callback_valid() to return
> true in the said scenario.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Merello <andrea.merello@gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/dma/dmaengine.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/dmaengine.h b/drivers/dma/dmaengine.h
> index 501c0b063f85..0ba2c1f3c55d 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/dmaengine.h
> +++ b/drivers/dma/dmaengine.h
> @@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ dmaengine_desc_get_callback_invoke(struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *tx,
> static inline bool
> dmaengine_desc_callback_valid(struct dmaengine_desc_callback *cb)
> {
> - return (cb->callback) ? true : false;
> + return (cb->callback || cb->callback_result);
So I do not think this one should take care of callback_result, it is
supposed to check if the callback is valid or not.. Nothing more.
Ofcourse usage of this maybe incorrect which should be fixed. We do have
dmaengine_desc_callback_invoke() which propagates the callback_result to
user
next reply other threads:[~2019-01-04 14:51 UTC|newest]
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2019-01-04 14:51 Vinod Koul [this message]
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2018-11-20 17:24 dmaengine: fix dmaengine_desc_callback_valid() doesn't check for callback_result Radhey Shyam Pandey
2018-11-16 13:56 Andrea Merello
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