linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7] DMA: sun6i: Add driver for the Allwinner A31 DMA controller

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Date:	Wed, 21 May 2014 16:32:32 +0530
From:	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
To:	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, dmaengine@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-sunxi@...glegroups.com, kevin.z.m.zh@...il.com,
	sunny@...winnertech.com, shuge@...winnertech.com,
	zhuzhenhua@...winnertech.com, andriy.shevchenko@...el.com,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7] DMA: sun6i: Add driver for the Allwinner A31 DMA
 controller

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:58:29AM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 11:01:05AM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> > On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 03:42:58PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > > Hi Vinod,
> > > 
> > > On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 12:34:08PM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> > > > > +
> > > > > +static int sun6i_dma_terminate_all(struct sun6i_vchan *vchan)
> > > > > +{
> > > > > +	struct sun6i_dma_dev *sdev = to_sun6i_dma_dev(vchan->vc.chan.device);
> > > > > +	struct sun6i_pchan *pchan = vchan->phy;
> > > > > +	unsigned long flags;
> > > > > +	LIST_HEAD(head);
> > > > > +
> > > > > +	spin_lock(&sdev->lock);
> > > > > +	list_del_init(&vchan->node);
> > > > > +	spin_unlock(&sdev->lock);
> > > > > +
> > > > > +	spin_lock_irqsave(&vchan->vc.lock, flags);
> > > > > +
> > > > > +	vchan_get_all_descriptors(&vchan->vc, &head);
> > > > > +
> > > > > +	if (pchan) {
> > > > > +		writel(DMA_CHAN_ENABLE_STOP, pchan->base + DMA_CHAN_ENABLE);
> > > > > +		writel(DMA_CHAN_PAUSE_RESUME, pchan->base + DMA_CHAN_PAUSE);
> > > > > +
> > > > > +		vchan->phy = NULL;
> > > > > +		pchan->vchan = NULL;
> > > > > +		pchan->desc = NULL;
> > > > > +		pchan->done = NULL;
> > > > > +	}
> > > > > +
> > > > > +	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&vchan->vc.lock, flags);
> > > > > +
> > > > > +	vchan_dma_desc_free_list(&vchan->vc, &head);
> > > > 
> > > > shouldn't you kill the tasklet as well here?
> > > 
> > > Just to be clear, which tasklet? vchan's or the driver's?
> > You need to take care of both. But I suspect if we ensure irq is not triggered
> > and any pending ones are completed you can simply kill both of the tasklets
> > happily. See the fixes merged in dmaengine last cycle (hint: patchlog shows what
> > we need to do)
> 
> I still don't get why I should kill the driver tasklet in terminate_all.
> 
> The tasklet is common to all the channels, if you kill it, you'll
> prevent it from scheduling while other channels might have had a need
> for it to actually run.
I think I was under the impression that your tasklet is per channel, If that is
not the case it makes no sense then for this case
> 
> About the commits themselves, I guess you talk about 9068b032 and
> ccc7aad0. Both these commits only fix the remove path, not the
> terminate_all one, and both these drivers are not doing anything
> related to the tasklet in terminate_all.
Yup as you would have noticed these were not per channel as well

> 
> > Btw just noticed, you *should* use dmaengine: as the subsytem name on the patch
> > series...
> 
> Ok, I will.
Thanks

-- 
~Vinod

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