linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH v4 5/6] i2c: rcar: skip DMA if buffer is not safe

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Date:   Thu, 17 Aug 2017 16:14:48 +0200
From:   Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>
To:     linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-iio@...r.kernel.org, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-media@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH v4 5/6] i2c: rcar: skip DMA if buffer is not safe

This HW is prone to races, so it needs to setup new messages in irq
context. That means we can't alloc bounce buffers if a message buffer is
not DMA safe. So, in that case, simply fall back to PIO.

Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>
---
 drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-rcar.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-rcar.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-rcar.c
index 93c1a54981df08..5654a7142bffec 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-rcar.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-rcar.c
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ static void rcar_i2c_dma(struct rcar_i2c_priv *priv)
 	int len;
 
 	/* Do not use DMA if it's not available or for messages < 8 bytes */
-	if (IS_ERR(chan) || msg->len < 8)
+	if (IS_ERR(chan) || msg->len < 8 || !(msg->flags & I2C_M_DMA_SAFE))
 		return;
 
 	if (read) {
-- 
2.11.0