[PATCH] mmc: mmci: Fixup and cleanup code for DMA handling

Ulf Hansson ulf.hansson at linaro.org
Tue Oct 16 03:16:17 EDT 2012


Hi Linus,

On 12 October 2012 23:32, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson at stericsson.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson at linaro.org>
>>
>> The cookie is now used to indicate if dma_unmap_sg shall be
>> done in post_request. At DMA errors, the DMA job is immediately
>> not only terminated but also unmapped. To indicate that this
>> has been done the cookie is reset to zero. post_request will
>> thus only do dma_umap_sg for requests which has a cookie not set
>> to zero.
>>
>> Some corresponding duplicated code could then be removed and
>> moreover some corrections at DMA errors for terminating the same
>> DMA job twice has also been fixed.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson at linaro.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Per Forlin <per.forlin at stericsson.com>
>
> It looks like it's both factoring out code and also adding some unmapping
> in hithereto unhandled cases, correct? It looks OK to me now atleast so
> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>

This code has not been tested on a "legacy" ARM PL180 but only for
ux500 boards. Even if it should affect DMA handling we should test
this properly. Would be great if you were able to help out, I guess
you still have available hardware for these tests?

Kind regards
Ulf Hansson



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