[patch V2 0/6] dma: edma: Provide granular residue accounting
Joel Fernandes
joelf at ti.com
Tue Apr 29 21:25:02 PDT 2014
On 04/29/2014 03:46 AM, Vinod Koul wrote:
[..]
> commit 770f0f3a20188b7e17db2790803b9da925dc0b94
> Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
> Date: Mon Apr 28 10:49:43 2014 +0000
>
> dmaengine: edma: Make reading the position of active channels work
>
> As Joel pointed out, edma_read_position() uses memcpy_fromio() to read
> the parameter ram. That's not synchronized with the internal update as
> it does a byte by byte copy. We need to do a 32bit read to get a
> consistent value.
>
> Further reading destination and source is pointless. In DEV_TO_MEM
> transfers we are only interested in the destination, in MEM_TO_DEV we
> care about the source. In MEM_TO_MEM it really does not matter which
> one you read.
>
> Simple solution: Remove the pointers, select dest/source via a bool
> and return the read value.
>
> Remove the export of this function while at it. The only potential
> user is the dmaengine and that's always builtin.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
>
> You s-o-b missing in this one, also ack from Sekhar missing. Do you want to redo
> this or prefer me to cherry-pick patches adding acks and your s-o-b, since I
> already fetched your branch
>
> Either way is fine with me...
>
If its Ok with you, it would great if you could add my Ack and Sob.
Thanks a lot. Let me know if you'd want me to do anything else here.
Regards,
-Joel
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