Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] dmaengine: xilinx_dma: Fix CPU stall in xilinx_dma_poll_timeout

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Alex,

Thanks for your patch!

On Wed, 1 Apr 2026 at 11:58, Alex Bereza <alex@bereza.email> wrote:
> Currently when calling xilinx_dma_poll_timeout with delay_us=0 and a
> condition that is never fulfilled, the CPU busy-waits for prolonged time
> and the timeout triggers only with a massive delay causing a CPU stall.
>
> This happens due to a huge underestimation of wall clock time in
> poll_timeout_us_atomic. Commit 7349a69cf312 ("iopoll: Do not use
> timekeeping in read_poll_timeout_atomic()") changed the behavior to no
> longer use ktime_get at the expense of underestimation of wall clock
> time which appears to be very large for delay_us=0. Instead of timing
> out after approximately XILINX_DMA_LOOP_COUNT microseconds, the timeout
> takes XILINX_DMA_LOOP_COUNT * 1000 * (time that the overhead of the for
> loop in poll_timeout_us_atomic takes) which is in the range of several
> minutes for XILINX_DMA_LOOP_COUNT=1000000. Fix this by using a non-zero
> value for delay_us. Use delay_us=10 to keep the delay in the hot path of
> starting DMA transfers minimal but still avoid CPU stalls in case of
> unexpected hardware failures.
>
> One-off measurement with delay_us=0 causes the cpu to busy wait around 7
> minutes in the timeout case. After applying this patch with delay_us=10
> the measured timeout was 1053428 microseconds which is roughly
> equivalent to the expected 1000000 microseconds specified in
> XILINX_DMA_LOOP_COUNT.
>
> Add a constant XILINX_DMA_POLL_DELAY_US for delay_us value.
>
> Fixes: 9495f2648287 ("dmaengine: xilinx_vdma: Use readl_poll_timeout instead of do while loop's")
> Fixes: 7349a69cf312 ("iopoll: Do not use timekeeping in read_poll_timeout_atomic()")
>

Please no blank line between tags.

> Signed-off-by: Alex Bereza <alex@bereza.email>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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