[patch V2 0/6] dma: edma: Provide granular residue accounting
Joel Fernandes
agnel.joel at gmail.com
Wed Apr 30 18:57:05 PDT 2014
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul at intel.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:25:02PM -0500, Joel Fernandes wrote:
>> 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.
> Done, The changes are getting pushed, pls do verify
Sorry for the late reply as I'm at a conference.
Thanks, I verified and it looks OK.
Regards,
-Joel
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