[PATCH 1/3] dmaengine: xilinx_dma: Fix channel idle state management in interrupt handler

Folker Schwesinger dev at folker-schwesinger.de
Thu Sep 18 00:36:56 PDT 2025


On Wed Sep 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM CEST, Suraj Gupta wrote:
> Only mark the channel as idle and start new transfers when the active list
> is actually empty, ensuring proper channel state management and avoiding
> spurious transfer attempts.
>
> Signed-off-by: Suraj Gupta <suraj.gupta2 at amd.com>
> Fixes: c0bba3a99f07 ("dmaengine: vdma: Add Support for Xilinx AXI Direct Memory Access Engine")

Tested-by: Folker Schwesinger <dev at folker-schwesinger.de>

> ---
>  drivers/dma/xilinx/xilinx_dma.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/xilinx/xilinx_dma.c b/drivers/dma/xilinx/xilinx_dma.c
> index a34d8f0ceed8..9f416eae33d0 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/xilinx/xilinx_dma.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/xilinx/xilinx_dma.c
> @@ -1914,8 +1914,10 @@ static irqreturn_t xilinx_dma_irq_handler(int irq, void *data)
>  		      XILINX_DMA_DMASR_DLY_CNT_IRQ)) {
>  		spin_lock(&chan->lock);
>  		xilinx_dma_complete_descriptor(chan);
> -		chan->idle = true;
> -		chan->start_transfer(chan);
> +		if (list_empty(&chan->active_list)) {
> +			chan->idle = true;
> +			chan->start_transfer(chan);
> +		}
>  		spin_unlock(&chan->lock);
>  	}
>  




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