Re: [RFT PATCH] dmaengine: Fix choppy sound because of unimplemented resume

From: Maxime Ripard
Date: Thu Jun 11 2015 - 12:25:12 EST



On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 05:17:07PM +0900, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> Some drivers implement only pause operation (no resuming). Example is
> pl330 where pause is needed for getting residuum. pl330 does not support
> resume operation, transfer must be stopped after pause.
>
> However for slaves this is exposed always as "pause and resume" which
> introduces subtle errors on Odroid U3 board (Exynos4412 with pl330).
> After adding pause function to pl330 driver the audio playback
> (utilizing DMA) gets choppy after some time (approximately 24 hours).
>
> Fix this by exposing "cmd_pause" if and only if pause and resume are
> implemented.
>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: gabriel@xxxxxxxxx
> Reported-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 88987d2c7534 ("dmaengine: pl330: add DMA_PAUSE feature")

That looks reasonable.

Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks! (and sorry for that)
Maxime

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