dmaengine: Fix dma_get_any_slave_channel() handling of private channels
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Jon Hunter
maintainerPATCH 1/1 dmaengine: Fix dma_get_any_slave_channel() handling of private channels
The function dma_get_any_slave_channel() allocates private DMA channels by calling the internal private_candidate() function. However, when doing so, if a channel is successfully allocated, neither the DMA_PRIVATE flag is set or the privatecnt variable is incremented for the DMA controller. This will cause the following problems ...
1. A DMA controller initialised with the DMA_PRIVATE flag set (ie. channels should always be private) will become public incorrectly when a channel is allocated and then released. This is because:
- A DMA controller initialised with DMA_PRIVATE set will have a initial privatecnt of 1.
- The privatecnt is not incremented by dma_get_any_slave_channel().
- When the channel is released via dma_release_channel(), the privatecnt is decremented and the DMA_PRIVATE flag is cleared because the privatecnt value is 0.
2. For a DMA controller initialised with the DMA_PRIVATE flag set, if more than one DMA channel is allocated successfully via dma_get_any_slave_channel() and then one channel is released, the following issues can occur:
i). All channels currently allocated will appear as public because
the DMA_PRIVATE will be cleared (as described in #1).
ii). Subsequent calls to dma_get_any_slave_channel() will fail even
if there are channels available. The reason this fails is that the private_candidate() function (called by dma_get_any_slave_channel()) will detect the DMA controller is not private but has active channels and so cannot allocate any private channels (see below code snippet).
/* devices with multiple channels need special handling as we need to
* ensure that all channels are either private or public. */
if (dev->chancnt > 1 && !dma_has_cap(DMA_PRIVATE, dev->cap_mask))
list_for_each_entry(chan, &dev->channels, device_node) {
/* some channels are already publicly allocated */
if (chan->client_count)
return NULL;
}3. For a DMA controller initialised with the DMA_PRIVATE flag unset, if a private channel is allocated via dma_get_any_slave_channel(), then the DMA controller will still appear as public because the DMA_PRIVATE flag is not set and this will cause:
i). The allocated channel to appear as public
ii). Prevent any further private channels being allocated via
dma_get_any_slave_channel() (because private_candidate() will fail in the same way as described in 2.ii above).
Fix this by incrementing the privatecnt in dma_get_any_slave_channel(). If dma_get_any_slave_channel() allocates a channel also ensure the DMA_PRIVATE flag is set, in case it was not before. If the privatecnt becomes 0 then the DMA_PRIVATE flag should be cleared.
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This issue was found when attempting to open and close a serial interface, that uses DMA, multiple times on a tegra device. When opening the serial device a 2nd time after closing, the DMA channel allocation would fail.
drivers/dma/dmaengine.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
drivers/dma/dmaengine.c +5 -0
@@ -571,11 +571,16 @@ struct dma_chan *dma_get_any_slave_channel(struct dma_device *device) chan =private_candidate (&mask, device,NULL ,NULL );if (chan) { +dma_cap_set (DMA_PRIVATE , device->cap_mask); + device->privatecnt++; err =dma_chan_get (chan);if (err) {pr_debug ("%s: failed to get %s: (%d)\n" , __func__,dma_chan_name (chan), err); chan =NULL ; + +if (--device->privatecnt ==0 ) +dma_cap_clear (DMA_PRIVATE , device->cap_mask); } }
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