Re: [PATCH 1/2 v2] dmaengine: rcar-dmac: ensure CHCR DE bit is actually 0 after clear

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Thu Nov 16 2017 - 04:46:51 EST


Hi Morimoto-san,

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 5:33 AM, Kuninori Morimoto
<kuninori.morimoto.gx@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for your patch!

> DMAC reads data from source device, and buffered it until transferable
> size for shink device. Because of this behavoir, DMAC is including

sink, behavior

> buffered data .
>
> Now, CHCR DE bit is controlling DMA transfer enable/disable.
>
> If DE bit was cleared during data transferring, or during buffering,
> it will flush buffered data if source device was peripheral device
> (The buffered data will be removed if source device was memory).
> Because of this behavior, driver should ensure that DE bit is actually
> 0 after cleared.

clearing

> This patch adds new rcar_dmac_chcr_de_barrier() and call it after CHCR
> register access.
>
> Tested-by: Hiroyuki Yokoyama <hiroyuki.yokoyama.vx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Ryo Kodama <ryo.kodama.vz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c b/drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c
> index 2b2c7db..16ebd5d 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c
> @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
> * published by the Free Software Foundation.
> */
>
> +#include <linux/delay.h>
> #include <linux/dma-mapping.h>
> #include <linux/dmaengine.h>
> #include <linux/interrupt.h>
> @@ -741,6 +742,24 @@ static int rcar_dmac_fill_hwdesc(struct rcar_dmac_chan *chan,
> /* -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> * Stop and reset
> */
> +static void rcar_dmac_chcr_de_barrier(struct rcar_dmac_chan *chan)
> +{
> + u32 chcr;
> + int i;

unsigned int

> +
> + /*
> + * Ensure that the setting of the DE bit is actually 0 after
> + * clearing it.
> + */
> + for (i = 0; i < 1024; i++) {
> + chcr = rcar_dmac_chan_read(chan, RCAR_DMACHCR);
> + if (!(chcr & RCAR_DMACHCR_DE))
> + return;
> + udelay(1);
> + }

What's a typical number of loops needed before DE is really cleared?

> +
> + dev_err(chan->chan.device->dev, "CHCR DE check error\n");
> +}

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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