Regression: memory corruption on Atmel SAMA5D31

[Tudor.Ambarus at microchip.com]

On 6/20/22 10:04, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
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> On 18.05.22 09:51, Peter Rosin wrote:
>> 2022-05-18 at 08:21, Tudor.Ambarus at microchip.com wrote:
>>> On 5/17/22 17:50, Peter Rosin wrote:
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>>>> 2022-04-11 at 08:21, Tudor.Ambarus at microchip.com wrote:
>>>>> There are some concurrency bugs in the at-hdmac (DMA) driver, I'm handling them
>>>>> and will come with a resolution. Disabling the DMA showed the bug is no more
>>>>> reproducible.
>>>>
>>>> Any news?
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>>> I'm now allocated on this, so I started looking around what has to be done.
>>> I'm thinking of using virt-dma to manage the channels and the request queues.
>>> Will get back to you after I'll have something working.
>>
>> Sounds good, thanks!
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> That was about a month ago. Has any progress been made to get this
> regression fixed?

Hi, Thorsten, Peter,

I was mostly out of office last month, and I'll still be offline this week.
I made some progress, tried to address the bugs in an incremental way. I  now
encounter the memory corruption less often, but I still hit it. I made some
drafts at [1] if someone is curios. Anyway, I'm modifying the driver to use
virt-dma and also I'm trying to move the election of a new transfer in the
irq handler instead of in tasklet. I couldn't find a quick non-invasive fix,
so still in progress.

Cheers,
ta

git at github.com:ambarus/linux-0day.git, branch dma-regression-hdmac-v5.18-rc7-4th-attempt

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