Re: [PATCH 2/3] MTD: OneNAND: Fix loop hang when DMA error at Samsung SoCs

[Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 11:55 +0900, Kyungmin Park wrote:
> From: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
> 
> When DMA error occurs. it's loop hang since it can't exit the loop.
> and it's the right DMA handling code as Spec.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/onenand/samsung.c |   11 +++++------
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/onenand/samsung.c b/drivers/mtd/onenand/samsung.c
> index 05329ba..69e48d0 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/onenand/samsung.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/onenand/samsung.c
> @@ -554,14 +554,13 @@ static int s5pc110_dma_ops(void *dst, void *src, size_t count, int direction)
>  
>  	do {
>  		status = readl(base + S5PC110_DMA_TRANS_STATUS);
> +		if (status & S5PC110_DMA_TRANS_STATUS_TE) {
> +			writel(S5PC110_DMA_TRANS_CMD_TEC,
> +					base + S5PC110_DMA_TRANS_CMD);
> +			return -EIO;
> +		}
>  	} while (!(status & S5PC110_DMA_TRANS_STATUS_TD));
>  
> -	if (status & S5PC110_DMA_TRANS_STATUS_TE) {
> -		writel(S5PC110_DMA_TRANS_CMD_TEC, base + S5PC110_DMA_TRANS_CMD);
> -		writel(S5PC110_DMA_TRANS_CMD_TDC, base + S5PC110_DMA_TRANS_CMD);
> -		return -EIO;
> -	}
> -
>  	writel(S5PC110_DMA_TRANS_CMD_TDC, base + S5PC110_DMA_TRANS_CMD);

You shoule also add timeout to the loop. Forever loops are bad. Please,
while you are on it, fix the forever loop by doing something like this:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/59180/
I mean, add timeout please.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)