[PATCH] dmaengine: pxa_dma: implement device_synchronize
Vinod Koul
vinod.koul at intel.com
Mon Jul 11 21:35:16 PDT 2016
On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 11:50:49PM +0200, Robert Jarzmik wrote:
> Implement the function which wait until a dma channel is stopped to have
> a synchronization point.
>
> This also protects the pxad_remove() from races, such as spurious
> interrupts while removing the driver, because :
> - as long as there is one dma channel requested, ie. dma_chan_get() but
> no dma_chan_put(), the try_module_get() of dma_chan_get() prevents
> the remove() routine from running
> - when the last channel is released, ie. the last dma_chan_put() is
> called, if there is a running DMA, pxad_synchronize() is called
> - pxad_synchronize() waits for the channel to stop, which in turn
> ensures on pxa architecture that the interrupt cannot be fired anymore
Applied, thanks
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~Vinod
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