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From: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
To: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
Cc: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com>,
	Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com>,
	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
	Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk>,
	dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] dmaengine: tegra-apb: Handle DMA_PREP_INTERRUPT flag properly
Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 10:25:45 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190521045545.GP15118@vkoul-mobl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <287d7e67-1572-b4f2-d4bb-b1f02f534d47@nvidia.com>

On 08-05-19, 10:24, Jon Hunter wrote:
> 
> On 05/05/2019 19:12, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> > The DMA_PREP_INTERRUPT flag means that descriptor's callback should be
> > invoked upon transfer completion and that's it. For some reason driver
> > completely disables the hardware interrupt handling, leaving channel in
> > unusable state if transfer is issued with the flag being unset. Note
> > that there are no occurrences in the relevant drivers that do not set
> > the flag, hence this patch doesn't fix any actual bug and merely fixes
> > potential problem.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com>
> 
> >From having a look at this, I am guessing that we have never really
> tested the case where DMA_PREP_INTERRUPT flag is not set because as you
> mentioned it does not look like this will work at all!

That is a fair argument
> 
> Is there are use-case you are looking at where you don't set the
> DMA_PREP_INTERRUPT flag?
> 
> If not I am wondering if we should even bother supporting this and warn
> if it is not set. AFAICT it does not appear to be mandatory, but maybe
> Vinod can comment more on this.

This is supposed to be used in the cases where you submit a bunch of
descriptors and selectively dont want an interrupt in few cases...

Is this such a case?

Thanks
~Vinod

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-21  4:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-05 18:12 [PATCH v1] dmaengine: tegra-apb: Handle DMA_PREP_INTERRUPT flag properly Dmitry Osipenko
2019-05-08  9:24 ` Jon Hunter
2019-05-08 12:37   ` Dmitry Osipenko
2019-05-21  4:55   ` Vinod Koul [this message]
2019-05-21 13:46     ` Dmitry Osipenko

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