Re: [PATCH v3] dmaengine: rcar-dmac: use TCRB instead of TCR for residue

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 3:15 AM, Kuninori Morimoto
<kuninori.morimoto.gx@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Hiroyuki Yokoyama <hiroyuki.yokoyama.vx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> SYS/RT/Audio DMAC includes independent data buffers for reading
> and writing. Therefore, the read transfer counter and write transfer
> counter have different values.
> TCR indicates read counter, and TCRB indicates write counter.
> The relationship is like below.
>
>         TCR       TCRB
> [SOURCE] -> [DMAC] -> [SINK]
>
> In the MEM_TO_DEV direction, what really matters is how much data has
> been written to the device. If the DMA is interrupted between read and
> write, then, the data doesn't end up in the destination, so shouldn't
> be counted. TCRB is thus the register we should use in this cases.
>
> In the DEV_TO_MEM direction, the situation is more complex. Both the
> read and write side are important. What matters from a data consumer
> point of view is how much data has been written to memory.
> On the other hand, if the transfer is interrupted between read and
> write, we'll end up losing data. It can also be important to report.
>
> In the MEM_TO_MEM direction, what matters is of course how much data
> has been written to memory from data consumer point of view.
> Here, because read and write have independent data buffers, it will
> take a while for TCR and TCRB to become equal. Thus we should check
> TCRB in this case, too.
>
> Thus, all cases we should check TCRB instead of TCR.
>
> Without this patch, Sound Capture has noise after PluseAudio support
> (= 07b7acb51d2 ("ASoC: rsnd: update pointer more accurate")), because
> the recorder will use wrong residue counter which indicates transferred
> from sound device, but in reality the data was not yet put to memory
> and recorder will record it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hiroyuki Yokoyama <hiroyuki.yokoyama.vx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> [Kuninori: added detail information in log]
> Signed-off-by: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2 -> v3
>
>  - Code is back to same as v1
>  - log has more detail explanation
>  - From: is back to Yokoyama-san again

Thanks for the update!

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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