[RFC v2] dmaengine: omap-dma: Start DMA without delay for cyclic channels

Peter Ujfalusi
2013-04-03T11:18:12Z

cyclic DMA is only used by audio which needs DMA to be started without a
delay.
If the DMA for audio is started using the tasklet we experience random
channel switch (to be more precise: channel shift).

Reported-by: Peter Meerwald <pmeerw@pmeerw.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@ti.com>
---
Hi Russell,

Instead of removing the tasklet we can identify the DMA channel used by audio
based on the cyclic flag of the channel.
I think this can be used as a short term solution to fix the audio channel shift
issue and later when we have the dynamic DMA channel allocation we can adjust
the code.

Regards,
Peter

drivers/dma/omap-dma.c | 20 ++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/omap-dma.c b/drivers/dma/omap-dma.c
index 2ea3d7e..ec3fc4f 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/omap-dma.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/omap-dma.c
@@ -282,12 +282,20 @@ static void omap_dma_issue_pending(struct dma_chan *chan)

spin_lock_irqsave(&c->vc.lock, flags);
if (vchan_issue_pending(&c->vc) && !c->desc) {
- struct omap_dmadev *d = to_omap_dma_dev(chan->device);
- spin_lock(&d->lock);
- if (list_empty(&c->node))
- list_add_tail(&c->node, &d->pending);
- spin_unlock(&d->lock);
- tasklet_schedule(&d->task);
+ /*
+ * c->cyclic is used only by audio and in this case the DMA need
+ * to be started without delay.
+ */
+ if (!c->cyclic) {
+ struct omap_dmadev *d = to_omap_dma_dev(chan->device);
+ spin_lock(&d->lock);
+ if (list_empty(&c->node))
+ list_add_tail(&c->node, &d->pending);
+ spin_unlock(&d->lock);
+ tasklet_schedule(&d->task);
+ } else {
+ omap_dma_start_desc(c);
+ }
}
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&c->vc.lock, flags);
}
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1.8.1.5