linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] dmaengine: imx-sdma - correct the dma transfer residue calculation

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Date:   Fri, 25 Nov 2016 11:06:04 +0530
From:   Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
To:     Nandor Han <nandor.han@...com>
Cc:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>, dmaengine@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@...labora.com>,
        Marek Vasut <marex@...x.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] dmaengine: imx-sdma - correct the dma transfer
 residue calculation

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 02:13:41PM +0300, Nandor Han wrote:
> The residue calculation was taking in consideration that dma
> transaction status will be always retrieved in the dma callback
> used to inform that dma transfer is complete. However this is not
> the case for all subsystems that use dma. Some subsystems use a
> timer to check the dma status periodically.
> 
> Therefore the calculation was updated and residue is calculated
> accordingly by a) update the residue calculation taking in
> consideration the last used buffer index by using *buf_ptail* variable
> and b) chn_real_count (number of bytes transferred) is initialized to
> zero, when dma channel is created, to avoid using an uninitialized
> value in residue calculation when dma status is checked without
> waiting dma complete event.

Looks to be missed earier, so applying now

Thanks
-- 
~Vinod