[PATCH] ep93xx: Implement double buffering for M2M DMA channels

Mika Westerberg mika.westerberg at iki.fi
Sat Mar 24 03:32:07 EDT 2012


On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:09:50AM -0500, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> On Friday, March 23, 2012 12:05 AM, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 09:19:10PM -0500, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> >
> >> Did you test this patch or just review it?
> >
> > I tested and reviewed it.
> 
> OK. What kernel? My tests so far have been with 3.3.

3.3 and -next.

> >> On my system it doesn't work. I think it has something to do with the
> >> changes to m2m_hw_interrupt but I haven't tracked it down yet.
> >> 
> >> It looks like what's missing is a:
> >> 
> >> 	edmac->edma->hw_submit(edmac);
> >> 
> >> But, maybe that's not needed with double buffering?
> >
> > Did you try without your patch and adding my VIC hack? That's what I did when
> > I first got this patch and I saw no problems. I tested with audio (M2P),
> > mmc_spi (M2M) and dmatest (M2M).
> 
> No, I have not applied your VIC hack.

Please try it. The point there was that we have a problem in ep93xx VIC/DMA
code but it is totally different thing and not related to Rafal's patch. We
can sort the VIC thing out separately IMHO. ep93xx dma in 3.3 is broken
regardless this patch.



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