Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: qcom-bam: fix circular buffer handling

From: Sricharan R
Date: Tue Jun 18 2019 - 12:33:01 EST




On 6/18/2019 8:42 PM, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
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> On 18/06/2019 15:56, Sricharan R wrote:
>> ÂÂ So MAX_DESCRIPTORS is used in driver for masking head/tail pointers.
>> ÂÂ That's why we have to pass MAX_DESCRIPTORS + 1 so that it works
>> ÂÂ when the Macros does a size - 1
> Isn't that incorrect to do that, pretending to have more descriptors than we actually have?
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The Macro's expect that buffer size is power of 2. So we are infact passing the actual correct
size ( MAX_DESCRIPTORS + 1 = 4096)

Regards,
Sricharan

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