[PATCH V3] dmaengine: dw-axi-dmac: add spinlock for multi-channel DMA

From: Libing Lei
Date: Tue Apr 04 2023 - 11:40:39 EST


When multiple channels operate simultaneously, the common register shared
by all channels could be set to an unexpected value due to race conditions
on SMP machines, resulting in a disaster that DMAC cannot work from then
on:

cpu0 cpu1
dw_axi_dma_interrupt()
axi_dma_irq_disable(chip)
...
axi_chan_block_xfer_start()
axi_dma_enable()
val = axi_dma_ioread32(chip, DMAC_CFG)
axi_dma_irq_enable(chip)
axi_dma_iowrite32(chip, DMAC_CFG, val)

As a result, the global interrupt enable bit INT_EN in the DMAC_CFG
register is eventually cleared and the DMAC will no longer generates
interrupts.

The error scenario is as follows:

[ 63.483688] dmatest: dma0chan1-copy: result #18: 'test timed out' with
src_off=0xc2 dst_off=0x27b len=0x3a54 (0)
[ 63.483693] dmatest: dma0chan2-copy: result #18: 'test timed out' with
src_off=0x239 dst_off=0xfc9 len=0x213a (0)
[ 63.483696] dmatest: dma0chan0-copy: result #19: 'test timed out' with
src_off=0x5d1 dst_off=0x231 len=0x395e (0)

a spinlock is added to fix it up.

Signed-off-by: Libing Lei <libing.lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
Changes since v2:
- fix commit message

Changes since v1:
- an example and more description for this patch
---
.../dma/dw-axi-dmac/dw-axi-dmac-platform.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++++
drivers/dma/dw-axi-dmac/dw-axi-dmac.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/dw-axi-dmac/dw-axi-dmac-platform.c b/drivers/dma/dw-axi-dmac/dw-axi-dmac-platform.c
index bf85aa097..7aa53293c 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/dw-axi-dmac/dw-axi-dmac-platform.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/dw-axi-dmac/dw-axi-dmac-platform.c
@@ -108,37 +108,49 @@ static inline void axi_chan_config_write(struct axi_dma_chan *chan,
static inline void axi_dma_disable(struct axi_dma_chip *chip)
{
u32 val;
+ unsigned long flags;

+ spin_lock_irqsave(&chip->lock, flags);
val = axi_dma_ioread32(chip, DMAC_CFG);
val &= ~DMAC_EN_MASK;
axi_dma_iowrite32(chip, DMAC_CFG, val);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&chip->lock, flags);
}

static inline void axi_dma_enable(struct axi_dma_chip *chip)
{
u32 val;
+ unsigned long flags;

+ spin_lock_irqsave(&chip->lock, flags);
val = axi_dma_ioread32(chip, DMAC_CFG);
val |= DMAC_EN_MASK;
axi_dma_iowrite32(chip, DMAC_CFG, val);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&chip->lock, flags);
}

static inline void axi_dma_irq_disable(struct axi_dma_chip *chip)
{
u32 val;
+ unsigned long flags;

+ spin_lock_irqsave(&chip->lock, flags);
val = axi_dma_ioread32(chip, DMAC_CFG);
val &= ~INT_EN_MASK;
axi_dma_iowrite32(chip, DMAC_CFG, val);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&chip->lock, flags);
}

static inline void axi_dma_irq_enable(struct axi_dma_chip *chip)
{
u32 val;
+ unsigned long flags;

+ spin_lock_irqsave(&chip->lock, flags);
val = axi_dma_ioread32(chip, DMAC_CFG);
val |= INT_EN_MASK;
axi_dma_iowrite32(chip, DMAC_CFG, val);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&chip->lock, flags);
}

static inline void axi_chan_irq_disable(struct axi_dma_chan *chan, u32 irq_mask)
@@ -177,7 +189,9 @@ static inline u32 axi_chan_irq_read(struct axi_dma_chan *chan)
static inline void axi_chan_disable(struct axi_dma_chan *chan)
{
u32 val;
+ unsigned long flags;

+ spin_lock_irqsave(&chan->chip->lock, flags);
val = axi_dma_ioread32(chan->chip, DMAC_CHEN);
val &= ~(BIT(chan->id) << DMAC_CHAN_EN_SHIFT);
if (chan->chip->dw->hdata->reg_map_8_channels)
@@ -185,12 +199,15 @@ static inline void axi_chan_disable(struct axi_dma_chan *chan)
else
val |= BIT(chan->id) << DMAC_CHAN_EN2_WE_SHIFT;
axi_dma_iowrite32(chan->chip, DMAC_CHEN, val);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&chan->chip->lock, flags);
}

static inline void axi_chan_enable(struct axi_dma_chan *chan)
{
u32 val;
+ unsigned long flags;

+ spin_lock_irqsave(&chan->chip->lock, flags);
val = axi_dma_ioread32(chan->chip, DMAC_CHEN);
if (chan->chip->dw->hdata->reg_map_8_channels)
val |= BIT(chan->id) << DMAC_CHAN_EN_SHIFT |
@@ -199,6 +216,7 @@ static inline void axi_chan_enable(struct axi_dma_chan *chan)
val |= BIT(chan->id) << DMAC_CHAN_EN_SHIFT |
BIT(chan->id) << DMAC_CHAN_EN2_WE_SHIFT;
axi_dma_iowrite32(chan->chip, DMAC_CHEN, val);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&chan->chip->lock, flags);
}

static inline bool axi_chan_is_hw_enable(struct axi_dma_chan *chan)
@@ -1420,6 +1438,8 @@ static int dw_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
if (ret)
return ret;

+ spin_lock_init(&chip->lock);
+
dw->chan = devm_kcalloc(chip->dev, hdata->nr_channels,
sizeof(*dw->chan), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!dw->chan)
diff --git a/drivers/dma/dw-axi-dmac/dw-axi-dmac.h b/drivers/dma/dw-axi-dmac/dw-axi-dmac.h
index e9d5eb0fd..4a8db437e 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/dw-axi-dmac/dw-axi-dmac.h
+++ b/drivers/dma/dw-axi-dmac/dw-axi-dmac.h
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ struct axi_dma_chip {
struct clk *core_clk;
struct clk *cfgr_clk;
struct dw_axi_dma *dw;
+ spinlock_t lock;
};

/* LLI == Linked List Item */
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