[PATCH V3] dmaengine: imx-sdma: Fix SPBA bus detection on multi-SPBA platforms

Shengjiu Wang shengjiu.wang at nxp.com
Mon Apr 20 03:08:54 PDT 2026


i.MX8M platforms have multiple SPBA buses under different AIPS buses.
The current code searches the entire device tree and returns the first
SPBA bus found, which may not be under the same AIPS bus as the SDMA
controller.

This breaks SDMA P2P transfers because the SDMA script needs to know
if peripherals are on SPBA or AIPS to configure watermark levels
correctly. Using the wrong SPBA bus causes DMA timeouts and transfer
failures.

Fix by searching for the SPBA bus under the SDMA's parent node (AIPS)
first, then falling back to a global search for backward compatibility.

Example device tree showing the issue:
  aips1 {
    spba1 { sai at ...; };      /* Correct SPBA for sdma1 */
    sdma1 at ...;
  };
  aips2 {
    spba2 { uart at ...; };     /* Wrong SPBA - found first by old code */
  };

Fixes: 8391ecf465ec ("dmaengine: imx-sdma: Add device to device support")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Shengjiu Wang <shengjiu.wang at nxp.com>
---
changs in v3:
- add fallback to a global search for backward compatibility, which is
  to address comments from sashiko.dev
- update commit subject and commit message
- add comments in code.
- add Cc stable tag
- Don't add Frank's RB on v2 as there are several other changes.

changes in v2:
- add fixes tag
- use __free(device_node) for auto release. 

 drivers/dma/imx-sdma.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/imx-sdma.c b/drivers/dma/imx-sdma.c
index 3d527883776b..592705af2319 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/imx-sdma.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/imx-sdma.c
@@ -2364,7 +2364,18 @@ static int sdma_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 			return dev_err_probe(&pdev->dev, ret,
 					     "failed to register controller\n");
 
-		spba_bus = of_find_compatible_node(NULL, NULL, "fsl,spba-bus");
+		/*
+		 * On i.MX8M platforms with multiple SPBA buses, we need to find
+		 * the SPBA bus that's under the same AIPS bus as this SDMA controller.
+		 * First check the SDMA's parent (AIPS bus) for a child SPBA bus.
+		 * If not found, fall back to searching the entire device tree for
+		 * backward compatibility with older platforms.
+		 */
+		struct device_node *sdma_parent_np __free(device_node) = of_get_parent(np);
+
+		spba_bus = of_get_compatible_child(sdma_parent_np, "fsl,spba-bus");
+		if (!spba_bus)
+			spba_bus = of_find_compatible_node(NULL, NULL, "fsl,spba-bus");
 		ret = of_address_to_resource(spba_bus, 0, &spba_res);
 		if (!ret) {
 			sdma->spba_start_addr = spba_res.start;
-- 
2.34.1




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