[PATCH] dmaengine: tegra: only advertise supported pause operations

From: James Hilliard

Date: Mon Nov 09 2026 - 00:00:43 EST


Tegra186 does not support pausing a channel, but the driver installs
device_pause and device_resume for every variant. Both callbacks return
-ENOSYS on Tegra186.

dma_get_slave_caps() derives cmd_pause and cmd_resume from the presence
of these callbacks. Clients such as generic 8250 therefore accept RX DMA
channels that cannot satisfy their pause requirement. A receive timeout
then reaches an unsupported pause operation instead of being excluded
when the channel capabilities are checked.

Only install the pause and resume callbacks when the matched chip data
advertises hardware support. Keep them available on Tegra194 and later.

Fixes: ee17028009d4 ("dmaengine: tegra: Add tegra gpcdma driver")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/dma/tegra186-gpc-dma.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/tegra186-gpc-dma.c b/drivers/dma/tegra186-gpc-dma.c
index e76c58f213d8..72266f490e8a 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/tegra186-gpc-dma.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/tegra186-gpc-dma.c
@@ -1518,8 +1518,10 @@ static int tegra_dma_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
tdma->dma_dev.device_terminate_all = tegra_dma_terminate_all;
tdma->dma_dev.device_tx_status = tegra_dma_tx_status;
tdma->dma_dev.device_issue_pending = tegra_dma_issue_pending;
- tdma->dma_dev.device_pause = tegra_dma_device_pause;
- tdma->dma_dev.device_resume = tegra_dma_device_resume;
+ if (cdata->hw_support_pause) {
+ tdma->dma_dev.device_pause = tegra_dma_device_pause;
+ tdma->dma_dev.device_resume = tegra_dma_device_resume;
+ }
tdma->dma_dev.device_synchronize = tegra_dma_chan_synchronize;
tdma->dma_dev.residue_granularity = DMA_RESIDUE_GRANULARITY_BURST;


---
base-commit: 6628e7d4c6b25c8d18f1345e3a20d21829aae7e4
change-id: 20261108-submit-tegra186-dma-pause-caps-v1-664d1320d502

Best regards,
--
James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@xxxxxxxxx>