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From: joelf@ti•com (Joel Fernandes)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [patch V2 0/6] dma: edma: Provide granular residue accounting
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 23:25:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53607B1E.2030906@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140429084635.GN32284@intel.com>

On 04/29/2014 03:46 AM, Vinod Koul wrote:
[..]
> commit 770f0f3a20188b7e17db2790803b9da925dc0b94
> Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix•de>
> Date:   Mon Apr 28 10:49:43 2014 +0000
> 
>     dmaengine: edma: Make reading the position of active channels work
> 
>     As Joel pointed out, edma_read_position() uses memcpy_fromio() to read
>     the parameter ram. That's not synchronized with the internal update as
>     it does a byte by byte copy. We need to do a 32bit read to get a
>     consistent value.
> 
>     Further reading destination and source is pointless. In DEV_TO_MEM
>     transfers we are only interested in the destination, in MEM_TO_DEV we
>     care about the source. In MEM_TO_MEM it really does not matter which
>     one you read.
> 
>     Simple solution: Remove the pointers, select dest/source via a bool
>     and return the read value.
> 
>     Remove the export of this function while at it. The only potential
>     user is the dmaengine and that's always builtin.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix•de>
> 
> You s-o-b missing in this one, also ack from Sekhar missing. Do you want to redo
> this or prefer me to cherry-pick patches adding acks and your s-o-b, since I
> already fetched your branch
> 
> Either way is fine with me...
> 

If its Ok with you, it would great if you could add my Ack and Sob.
Thanks a lot. Let me know if you'd want me to do anything else here.

Regards,
-Joel

  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-30  4:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-28 10:49 [patch V2 0/6] dma: edma: Provide granular residue accounting Thomas Gleixner
2014-04-28 10:49 ` [patch V2 1/6] dma: edma: Sanitize residue reporting Thomas Gleixner
2014-04-28 10:49 ` [patch V2 2/6] dma: edma: Check the current decriptor first in tx_status() Thomas Gleixner
2014-04-28 10:49 ` [patch V2 3/6] dma: edma: Create private pset struct Thomas Gleixner
2014-04-28 10:49 ` [patch V2 4/6] dma: edma: Store transfer data in edma_desc and edma_pset Thomas Gleixner
2014-04-28 10:49 ` [patch V2 5/6] edma: Make reading the position of active channels work Thomas Gleixner
2014-04-28 14:44   ` Sekhar Nori
2014-04-28 16:11   ` Joel Fernandes
2014-04-28 10:49 ` [patch V2 6/6] dma: edma: Provide granular accounting Thomas Gleixner
2014-04-28 20:47 ` [patch V2 0/6] dma: edma: Provide granular residue accounting Joel Fernandes
2014-04-29  8:46   ` Vinod Koul
2014-04-30  4:25     ` Joel Fernandes [this message]
2014-04-30  5:08       ` Vinod Koul
2014-05-01  1:57         ` Joel Fernandes

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