[PATCH] dmatest: abort transfers immediately when asked for

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul at intel.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 08:24:15PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com> wrote:
>> > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 01:33:17PM +0100, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> >> When thread is going to be stopped we have to unconditionally terminate all
>> >> ongoing transfers. Otherwise it would be possible that callback function will
>> >> be called on the next interrupt and will try to access to already freed
>> >> structures.
>> >>
>> >> The patch introduces specific error message for this, though it doesn't
>> >> increase the counter of the failed tests.
>> >>
>> > Thanks for persevering with this! Although this patch definitely fixes the
>> > panic I was seeing, I now observe buffer verification failures in subsequent
>> > test runs after an aborted run:
>>
>> I think the description to the commit adfa543e "dmatest: don't use
>> set_freezable_with_signal()" may shed light on this.
>>
>> The background (if  I got it correctly) is in race with done flag. So,
>> we got a callback call from the DMA engine, but we don't know which
>> transfer triggers it.
>> I might be wrong. This is just an assumption.
>>
>> Have you ever see such behaviour on pre v3.10-rc1 kernels? (I mean
>> with old dmatest module)
> Terminate shouldnt cause the issue with buffer verfication, can you try this on
> dw_dmac, do you see similar failures on verfication?

I saw the similar errors on dw_dmac on Intel Medfield device.
Anyway, I checked another approach with Will.
For now I will send a quick fix that prevents tester to abort an
ongoing transfer.
In future we could implement a robust logic when transfers can be
interrupted at any time.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko