[PATCH v3 2/3] dmaengine: imx-sdma: fix dma freezes

[Philipp Puschmann]

For some years and since many kernel versions there are reports that the
RX UART SDMA channel stops working at some point. The workaround was to
disable DMA for RX. This commit tries to fix the problem itself.

Due to its license i wasn't able to debug the sdma script itself but it
somehow leads to blocking the scheduling of the channel script when a
running sdma script does not find any free descriptor in the ring to put
its data into.

If we detect such a potential case we manually restart the channel.

As sdmac->desc is constant we can move desc out of the loop.

Fixes: broken UART RX DMA. broken since start
Signed-off-by: Philipp Puschmann <philipp.puschmann@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Lucas Stach <l.stach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

Changelog v3:
 - use correct dma_wmb() instead of dma_wb()
 - add fixes tag
 
Changelog v2:
 - clarify comment and commit description

 drivers/dma/imx-sdma.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/imx-sdma.c b/drivers/dma/imx-sdma.c
index e029a2443cfc..a32b5962630e 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/imx-sdma.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/imx-sdma.c
@@ -775,21 +775,23 @@ static void sdma_start_desc(struct sdma_channel *sdmac)
 static void sdma_update_channel_loop(struct sdma_channel *sdmac)
 {
 	struct sdma_buffer_descriptor *bd;
-	int error = 0;
-	enum dma_status	old_status = sdmac->status;
+	struct sdma_desc *desc = sdmac->desc;
+	int error = 0, cnt = 0;
+	enum dma_status old_status = sdmac->status;
 
 	/*
 	 * loop mode. Iterate over descriptors, re-setup them and
 	 * call callback function.
 	 */
-	while (sdmac->desc) {
-		struct sdma_desc *desc = sdmac->desc;
+	while (desc) {
 
 		bd = &desc->bd[desc->buf_tail];
 
 		if (bd->mode.status & BD_DONE)
 			break;
 
+		cnt++;
+
 		if (bd->mode.status & BD_RROR) {
 			bd->mode.status &= ~BD_RROR;
 			sdmac->status = DMA_ERROR;
@@ -822,6 +824,17 @@ static void sdma_update_channel_loop(struct sdma_channel *sdmac)
 		if (error)
 			sdmac->status = old_status;
 	}
+
+	/* In some situations it may happen that the sdma does not found any
+	 * usable descriptor in the ring to put data into. The channel is
+	 * stopped then. While there is no specific error condition we can
+	 * check for, a necessary condition is that all available buffers for
+	 * the current channel have been written to by the sdma script. In
+	 * this case and after we have made the buffers available again,
+	 * we restart the channel.
+	 */
+	if (cnt >= desc->num_bd)
+		sdma_enable_channel(sdmac->sdma, sdmac->channel);
 }
 
 static void mxc_sdma_handle_channel_normal(struct sdma_channel *data)
-- 
2.23.0