Shilimkar, Santosh wrote:
--- a/arch/arm/plat-omap/dma.c
+++ b/arch/arm/plat-omap/dma.c
@@ -1898,11 +1898,11 @@ static int omap2_dma_handle_ch(int ch)
status = dma_read(CSR(ch));
}
+ dma_write(status, CSR(ch));
This is not necessary. Refers line "dma_write(OMAP2_DMA_CSR_CLEAR_MASK,
CSR(ch));" just above.
Yes, the current DMA code is full of inconsistencies and illogic. In
general, clearing a hard-coded mask of bits in an IRQ status register is
a nice way to enter a race with the machine. And that's a race you
cannot win every time, so you'll miss IRQs that you haven't handled yet.
A major cleanup should be done to the DMA code, but that's no reason not
to fix bugs now.
It will any way do the job of clearing. In a way, clear done after
the callback has no effect since the status reg and global IRQ_enable for
the particular channel is already disabled before that.
Yes, in a way that completely ignores the code and hardware behaviour.
If you write a 1 to, say, the FRAME bit of the CSR *after* a transfer
has been completed, *before* handling the event, you lose the CSR value,
so the channel handling function complains (correctly) about a spurious
IRQ and refuses to do anything more productive.
If you start a quick transfer from the callback function, the FRAME bit
*will* get set before control returns from the callback function.
So dma library is safe from the problem you have described.
Sounds like you're in denial, man. I didn't just randomly send a patch,
I actually ran into the problem, fixed it, verified it indeed is fixed,
and only after that did I send it.
Cheers,
Juha
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