Re: [PATCH V3 2/4] dmaengine: xilinx_dma: Move descriptors to done list based on completion bit
From: Pandey, Radhey Shyam
Date: Wed Jul 08 2026 - 12:17:21 EST
In AXI MCDMA scatter-gather mode, xilinx_dma_complete_descriptor() walks
avoid "scatter-gather" mode.
the channel's active_list and unconditionally moves every entry to the
done_list. The MCDMA IOC interrupt handler invokes this function on
every interrupt-on-completion, but with interrupt coalescing
(IRQThreshold > 1) an IOC interrupt may fire after only a subset of the
queued descriptors have actually been processed by the hardware. As a
result, descriptors whose completion bit is not yet set in the BD status
were being reported as completed to client drivers.
Add a check for the descriptor completion bit before moving entries from
the active list to the done list, using the appropriate direction-
specific status field (s2mm_status for DMA_DEV_TO_MEM, mm2s_status for
DMA_MEM_TO_DEV).
The MCDMA completion check is intentionally not guarded by chan->has_sg,
unlike the AXIDMA branch above. AXI MCDMA only operates in scatter-gather
mode (has_sg is always true), so the guard would always pass and is
omitted. The completion bit is therefore checked unconditionally.
Not need to talk about has_sg check and compare it with AXIDMA but if you still prefer make it precise.
Once addressed , feel free to add.
Reviewed-by: Radhey Shyam Pandey <radhey.shyam.pandey@xxxxxxx>
Thanks!
Just a note that this change aligns with changes that were done in past for AXIDMA in commit 7bcdaa658102 dmaengine: xilinx_dma: Freeup active list based on descriptor completion bit
Fixes: 6ccd692bfb7f ("dmaengine: xilinx_dma: Add Xilinx AXI MCDMA Engine driver support")
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Neeli <srinivas.neeli@xxxxxxx>
---
Changes in V3:
- Added Fixes tag.
- Expanded commit message to explain the interrupt coalescing scenario
and why the has_sg guard is omitted for MCDMA.
- Changed local variable from 'bool completed' to 'u32 status' for
cleaner status field access.
- Simplified completion check logic.
Changes in V2:
- No change.
---
drivers/dma/xilinx/xilinx_dma.c | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/dma/xilinx/xilinx_dma.c b/drivers/dma/xilinx/xilinx_dma.c
index ff5b29a808e9..1b5b00f08c5f 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/xilinx/xilinx_dma.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/xilinx/xilinx_dma.c
@@ -1784,6 +1784,17 @@ static void xilinx_dma_complete_descriptor(struct xilinx_dma_chan *chan)
struct xilinx_axidma_tx_segment, node);
if (!(seg->hw.status & XILINX_DMA_BD_COMP_MASK) && chan->has_sg)
break;
+ } else if (chan->xdev->dma_config->dmatype == XDMA_TYPE_AXIMCDMA) {
+ struct xilinx_aximcdma_tx_segment *seg;
+ u32 status;
+
+ seg = list_last_entry(&desc->segments,
+ struct xilinx_aximcdma_tx_segment,
+ node);
+ status = (chan->direction == DMA_DEV_TO_MEM) ?
+ seg->hw.s2mm_status : seg->hw.mm2s_status;
+ if (!(status & XILINX_DMA_BD_COMP_MASK))
+ break;
}
if (chan->has_sg && chan->xdev->dma_config->dmatype !=
XDMA_TYPE_VDMA)