From: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
To: Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org>
Cc: dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, timur@codeaurora.org,
linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
Andy Gross <andy.gross@linaro.org>,
David Brown <david.brown@linaro.org>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
linux-soc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] dmaengine: qcom_hidma: correct API violation for submit
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 10:40:22 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170703051022.GZ19154@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1498833785-22632-1-git-send-email-okaya@codeaurora.org>
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 10:43:05AM -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> Current code is violating the DMA Engine API by putting the submitted
> requests directly into the HW queue. This causes queued transactions
> to be started by another thread as soon as the first one finishes.
>
> The DMA Engine document clearly states this.
>
> "dmaengine_submit() will not start the DMA operation".
>
> Move HW queuing of the requests into the issue_pending() routine
> to comply with API requirements also create a new queued state for
> temporarily holding the requests.
>
> A descriptor goes through these transitions now.
>
> free->prepared->queued->active->completed->free
>
> as opposed to
>
> free->prepared->active->completed->free
Applied, thanks
--
~Vinod
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-03 5:07 UTC|newest]
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2017-06-30 14:43 [PATCH V2] dmaengine: qcom_hidma: correct API violation for submit Sinan Kaya
2017-07-03 5:10 ` Vinod Koul [this message]
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