Re: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: dts: imx7: add DMA properties for ECSPI

[Fabio Estevam]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 10:07 PM Trent Piepho <tpiepho@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Tried SDMA firmware 4.2.  Still broken.  No apparent change.
>
> Get 4 cycle pause after each byte.
>
> And crash while/after using DMA.  Clearly some sort of memory
> corruption going on.  Fortunately, it's very reliable that using DMA
> almost immediately causes a problem and this is easy to reproduce.  I
> think that indicates it's either clobbers a lot of RAM, or consistently
> manages to hit a very important location for kernel memory allocators.
>
> I've got an idea of where that might be happening that I'm looking
> into.

Ok, thanks for investigating this issue.

>
> I think it's reasonable to add the dma attributes, but put a check in
> the spi-imx driver to disable DMA on imx7d at least.

Something like this?
http://dark-code.bulix.org/urfoh8-580174