[PATCH v2 0/2] dmaengine: dw-axi-dmac: clean up DMAC enable and PM

From: tze . yee . ng

Date: Mon May 25 2026 - 03:10:48 EST


From: Tze Yee Ng <tze.yee.ng@xxxxxxxxxx>

The DesignWare AXI DMAC driver enables the controller in axi_dma_resume(),
which is invoked from the runtime PM resume path and from probe. Calling
axi_dma_enable() again at the start of every block transfer is redundant
on the normal path.

That extra call had also masked a gap in system-sleep power management:
with only runtime PM callbacks registered, a channel could remain allocated
across suspend/resume while the runtime usage count stayed non-zero and
axi_dma_runtime_resume() was not run, leaving DMAC_CFG and clocks out of
sync with software state. Removing the per-transfer enable without fixing
PM would make that scenario more visible.

This series drops the redundant enable and adds the missing system-sleep
and channel-allocation PM handling called out during review.

Patch 1 removes axi_dma_enable() from axi_chan_block_xfer_start().

Patch 2 (follow-up to review feedback from Sashiko Watanabe):

- Add SET_SYSTEM_SLEEP_PM_OPS(pm_runtime_force_suspend,
pm_runtime_force_resume) so system suspend/resume reuses the existing
axi_dma_suspend() and axi_dma_resume() paths even when the runtime
usage count is non-zero.

- Replace pm_runtime_get() with pm_runtime_resume_and_get() in
dma_chan_alloc_chan_resources(), with pm_runtime_put() on error paths,
so clocks are enabled before a client can submit a transfer immediately
after allocation.

Changes in v2:
- Add Patch 2 as a follow-up to review feedback from Sashiko Watanabe.
- No changes to Patch 1.

Niravkumar L Rabara (1):
dmaengine: dw-axi-dmac: drop redundant DMAC enable in block start

Tze Yee Ng (1):
dmaengine: dw-axi-dmac: fix PM for system sleep and channel alloc

drivers/dma/dw-axi-dmac/dw-axi-dmac-platform.c | 13 +++++++++----
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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