[PATCH] dmaengine: sun6i: Choose appropriate burst length under maxburst

Vinod Koul vkoul at kernel.org
Tue Dec 23 03:28:18 PST 2025


On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 16:04:48 +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> maxburst, as provided by the client, specifies the largest amount of
> data that is allowed to be transferred in one burst. This limit is
> normally provided to avoid a data burst overflowing the target FIFO.
> It does not mean that the DMA engine can only do bursts in that size.
> 
> Let the driver pick the largest supported burst length within the
> given limit. This lets the driver work correctly with some clients that
> give a large maxburst value. In particular, the 8250_dw driver will give
> a quarter of the UART's FIFO size as maxburst. On some systems the FIFO
> size is 256 bytes, giving a maxburst of 64 bytes, while the hardware
> only supports bursts of up to 16 bytes.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

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      commit: 7178c3586ab42693b28bb81014320a7783e5c435

Best regards,
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~Vinod





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