On 30 October 2012 16:58, Javier Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
> HW chaining is currently broken in imx-dma. It can be easily reproduced doing
> intensive accesses to a external MMC card and checking how the file system
> is corrupted.
>
> Preventing the driver to use HW chaining solves these issues.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martin <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/dma/imx-dma.c |    5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/imx-dma.c b/drivers/dma/imx-dma.c
> index 5084975..03f3b64 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/imx-dma.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/imx-dma.c
> @@ -643,9 +643,8 @@ static int imxdma_control(struct dma_chan *chan, enum 
> dma_ctrl_cmd cmd,
>                         break;
>                 }
>
> -               imxdmac->hw_chaining = 1;
> -               if (!imxdma_hw_chain(imxdmac))
> -                       return -EINVAL;
> +               imxdmac->hw_chaining = 0;
> +
>                 imxdmac->ccr_from_device = (mode | IMX_DMA_TYPE_FIFO) |
>                         ((IMX_DMA_MEMSIZE_32 | IMX_DMA_TYPE_LINEAR) << 2) |
>                         CCR_REN;
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>

Hi Vinod,
I see you missed this patch for 3.7. Could you please apply it as a fix for 3.8?

Regards.

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