[alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/7 v2] dmaengine: add a simple dma library

[Guennadi Liakhovetski]

On Fri, 3 Feb 2012, Shimoda, Yoshihiro wrote:

> Hi Guennadi-san,
> 
> 2012/02/03 7:19, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> [ snip ]
> >>
> >> Thank you for your comment.
> >>
> >> I investigaed the issue. I found out the renesas_usbhs driver may
> >> call tx_submit() in the callback() of the dma-simple finally.
> > 
> > Sorry, in my first reply to this your email I misread the renesas_usbhs 
> > for an issue with your new SUDMAC driver. Since this is not the case and 
> > my patch seems to be causing a regression, I'll look at it.
> 
> Thank you for the comment.
> 
> I found out that if the "power_up" is 0 in the sample_tx_submit(),
> the pm_state will be changed to "PENDING".
> And then, even if the renesas_usbhs calls dma_async_issue_pending(),
> the dma-simple driver doesn't call the simple_chan_xfer_ld_queue().
> This is because the driver will call the simple_chan_xfer_ld_queue()
> when the pm_state is "ESTABLISHED" only.
> 
> So I guess that we have to modify the simple_issue_pending().

Ok, I looked at this code, there's now a comment in simple_tx_submit():

	if (power_up) {
		...
	} else {
		/*
		 * Tell .device_issue_pending() not to run the queue, interrupts
		 * will do it anyway
		 */
		schan->pm_state = DMA_SIMPLE_PM_PENDING;
	}

And that's exactly what should be happening: an interrupt should trigger 
the IRQ thread should call simple_chan_xfer_ld_queue(), so, looks like the 
interrupt is not coming? It's also strange, why and how it worked without 
dma-simple? I don't think I changed that with the transition... 
Investigating.

Thanks
Guennadi
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