[PATCH 2/2] DMA: PL08x: fix channel pausing to timeout rather than lockup

[Dan Williams]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 08:48:27AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
>> <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>> > If a transfer is initiated from memory to a peripheral, then data is
>> > fetched and the channel is marked busy.  This busy status persists until
>> > the HALT bit is set and the queued data has been transfered to the
>> > peripheral.  Waiting indefinitely after setting the HALT bit results in
>> > system lockups.  Timeout this operation, and print an error when this
>> > happens.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
>> > ---
>> > This happens when a M->P transfer is started, but the peripheral doesn't
>> > take the data.  The DMA controller will mark itself active and fetch data
>> > from memory, in anticipation of the peripheral wanting the data.  This
>> > advances the source address.
>> >
>> > An alternative approach here is to just set the HALT bit and return
>> > immediately, without waiting for the primecell to show that it is no
>> > longer active.  In any case, resuming the channel will allow the
>> > transfer to continue without data loss.
>> >
>>
>> Ok, and the other infinite busy wait in pl08x_start_txd() is
>> guaranteed to be after a resume operation, or does it also need a
>> timeout?
>
> The channel should not be active at that point.  If it is, that means
> we're trying to setup a new transfer on a physical channel on top of an
> already active transfer, which obviously could result in the previous
> transfer being destroyed.
>
> Maybe a BUG_ON(pl08x_phy_channel_busy(phychan)) would be more appropriate
> there - but I think that's something to address in future patches.

Applied 1 and 2.

Thanks,
Dan