Re: [PATCH 5/7] i2c: rcar: : use proper DMAENGINE API for termination

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Wolfram,

On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 12:01 PM Wolfram Sang
<wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> dmaengine_terminate_all() is deprecated in favor of explicitly saying if
> it should be sync or async. Here, we want dmaengine_terminate_sync()
> because there is no other synchronization code in the driver to handle
> an async case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for your patch!

Is this safe? The driver is not using a threaded irq, and DMA termination
may be called from the interrupt handler.

Have you tried triggering DMA termination, with lockdep enabled?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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