Re: [PATCH v6 12/16] dmaengine: tegra-apb: Clean up suspend-resume

[Dmitry Osipenko]

30.01.2020 21:06, Dmitry Osipenko ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> 30.01.2020 19:08, Dmitry Osipenko ÐÐÑÐÑ:
>> 30.01.2020 17:09, Jon Hunter ÐÐÑÐÑ:
>>>
>>> On 30/01/2020 04:38, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>>>> It is enough to check whether hardware is busy on suspend and to reset
>>>> it across of suspend-resume because channel's configuration is fully
>>>> re-programmed on each DMA transaction anyways and because save-restore
>>>> of an active channel won't end up well without pausing transfer prior to
>>>> saving of the state (note that all channels shall be idling at the time of
>>>> suspend, so save-restore is not needed at all).
>>>
>>> I guess if we ever wanted to support SNDRV_PCM_INFO_PAUSE for audio and
>>> support the pause callback, then saving and restoring the channels could
>>> be needed. Right now I believe that it will just terminate_all transfers
>>> for audio on entering suspend. Any value in keeping this?
>>
>> Indeed, looks like [1] pauses DMA during suspend if SNDRV_PCM_INFO_PAUSE
>> is supported.
>>
>> [1]
>> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.5/source/sound/core/pcm_dmaengine.c#L199
>>
>> So we'll need to save-restore context only if DMA is in a paused state
>> during suspend, I'll adjust this patch to do that and will see if
>> enabling SNDRV_PCM_INFO_PAUSE works.
> 
> I started to look at it and found that the .device_pause() hook isn't
> implemented by the driver. So, it's fine to remove the context's
> save-restore for now.
> 
> Jon, what about to keep this patch as-is? Later on I'll take a look at
> implementing the proper pausing functionality and try to cleanup code a
> bit further (remove the free list usage, etc).

Ah, only T114+ supports the per-channel pausing. So, I won't care about
implementing the device_pause(), let's leave it to somebody else :)