linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] Revert "i2c: i2c-qcom-geni: Fix DMA transfer race"

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Date:   Fri, 09 Oct 2020 17:39:52 -0700
From:   Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>
To:     Akash Asthana <akashast@...eaurora.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org,
        Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
        Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>,
        Mukesh Savaliya <msavaliy@...eaurora.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Revert "i2c: i2c-qcom-geni: Fix DMA transfer race"

Quoting Douglas Anderson (2020-10-08 15:52:34)
> This reverts commit 02b9aec59243c6240fc42884acc958602146ddf6.
> 
> As talked about in the patch ("soc: qcom: geni: More properly switch
> to DMA mode"), swapping the order of geni_se_setup_m_cmd() and
> geni_se_xx_dma_prep() can sometimes cause corrupted transfers.  Thus
> we traded one problem for another.  Now that we've debugged the
> problem further and fixed the geni helper functions to more disable
> FIFO interrupts when we move to DMA mode we can revert it and end up
> with (hopefully) zero problems!
> 
> To be explicit, the patch ("soc: qcom: geni: More properly switch
> to DMA mode") is a prerequisite for this one.
> 
> Fixes: 02b9aec59243 ("i2c: i2c-qcom-geni: Fix DMA transfer race")
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>