[PATCH RESEND 2/3] dmaengine: xilinx_dma: Enable transfer chaining for AXIDMA and MCDMA by removing idle restriction
From: Suraj Gupta
Date: Sat Jun 20 2026 - 16:35:20 EST
Remove the restrictive idle check in xilinx_dma_start_transfer() and
xilinx_mcdma_start_transfer() that prevented new transfers from being
queued when the channel was busy.
Additionally, only update the CURDESC register when the channel is
running in scatter-gather mode and active list is empty to avoid
interfering with transfers already in progress. When the active list
contains transfers, the hardware tail pointer extension mechanism
handles chaining automatically.
Tested-by: Folker Schwesinger <dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Suraj Gupta <suraj.gupta2@xxxxxxx>
Co-developed-by: Srinivas Neeli <srinivas.neeli@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Neeli <srinivas.neeli@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/dma/xilinx/xilinx_dma.c | 13 ++++---------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/dma/xilinx/xilinx_dma.c b/drivers/dma/xilinx/xilinx_dma.c
index ca396b709742..35b553ee3205 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/xilinx/xilinx_dma.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/xilinx/xilinx_dma.c
@@ -1580,9 +1580,6 @@ static void xilinx_dma_start_transfer(struct xilinx_dma_chan *chan)
return;
}
- if (!chan->idle)
- return;
-
head_desc = list_first_entry(&chan->pending_list,
struct xilinx_dma_tx_descriptor, node);
tail_desc = list_last_entry(&chan->pending_list,
@@ -1599,7 +1596,7 @@ static void xilinx_dma_start_transfer(struct xilinx_dma_chan *chan)
dma_ctrl_write(chan, XILINX_DMA_REG_DMACR, reg);
}
- if (chan->has_sg)
+ if (chan->has_sg && list_empty(&chan->active_list))
xilinx_write(chan, XILINX_DMA_REG_CURDESC,
head_desc->async_tx.phys);
reg &= ~XILINX_DMA_CR_DELAY_MAX;
@@ -1660,9 +1657,6 @@ static void xilinx_mcdma_start_transfer(struct xilinx_dma_chan *chan)
if (chan->err)
return;
- if (!chan->idle)
- return;
-
if (list_empty(&chan->pending_list))
return;
@@ -1685,8 +1679,9 @@ static void xilinx_mcdma_start_transfer(struct xilinx_dma_chan *chan)
dma_ctrl_write(chan, XILINX_MCDMA_CHAN_CR_OFFSET(chan->tdest), reg);
/* Program current descriptor */
- xilinx_write(chan, XILINX_MCDMA_CHAN_CDESC_OFFSET(chan->tdest),
- head_desc->async_tx.phys);
+ if (chan->has_sg && list_empty(&chan->active_list))
+ xilinx_write(chan, XILINX_MCDMA_CHAN_CDESC_OFFSET(chan->tdest),
+ head_desc->async_tx.phys);
/* Program channel enable register */
reg = dma_ctrl_read(chan, XILINX_MCDMA_CHEN_OFFSET);
--
2.25.1