Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753450AbbKGMlG (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Nov 2015 07:41:06 -0500 Received: from mail-pa0-f47.google.com ([209.85.220.47]:33455 "EHLO mail-pa0-f47.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753410AbbKGMkz (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Nov 2015 07:40:55 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: pl330: Fix race in residue reporting To: Sjoerd Simons , Vinod Koul References: <1446808295-23149-1-git-send-email-sjoerd.simons@collabora.co.uk> Cc: k.kozlowski.k@gmail.com, linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rockchip@lists.infradead.org, dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Krzysztof Kozlowski X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Message-ID: <563DF151.2010307@samsung.com> Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 21:40:49 +0900 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1446808295-23149-1-git-send-email-sjoerd.simons@collabora.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3453 Lines: 97 W dniu 06.11.2015 o 20:11, Sjoerd Simons pisze: > When a transfer completes there is a small window between the descriptor > being unset as the current active one in the thread and it being marked > as done. This causes the residue to be incorrectly set when > pl330_tx_status is run in that window. Practically this caused > issue for me with audio playback as the residue goes up during a > transfer (as the in-progress transfer is no longer accounted for), > which makes the higher levels think the audio ringbuffer wrapped around > and thus did a sudden big jump forward. > > To resolve this, add a field protected by the dma engine lock to > indicate the transfer is done but the status hasn't been updated yet. > > Also fix the locking in pl330_tx_status, as the function inspects the > threads req_running field and queries the dma engine for the current > state of the running transfer the dma engine lock needs to be held to > ensure the active descriptor doesn't change underneath it. > > Signed-off-by: Sjoerd Simons > > --- > > drivers/dma/pl330.c | 10 +++++++++- > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/dma/pl330.c b/drivers/dma/pl330.c > index 17ee758..6c8243b 100644 > --- a/drivers/dma/pl330.c > +++ b/drivers/dma/pl330.c > @@ -503,6 +503,8 @@ struct dma_pl330_desc { > struct pl330_reqcfg rqcfg; > > enum desc_status status; > + /* Transfer completed, but not yet moved to DONE state */ > + bool xferred; > > int bytes_requested; > bool last; > @@ -1463,6 +1465,9 @@ static void dma_pl330_rqcb(struct dma_pl330_desc *desc, enum pl330_op_err err) > spin_lock_irqsave(&pch->lock, flags); > > desc->status = DONE; > + spin_lock(&pch->thread->dmac->lock); > + desc->xferred = false; > + spin_unlock(&pch->thread->dmac->lock); > > spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pch->lock, flags); > > @@ -1595,6 +1600,7 @@ static int pl330_update(struct pl330_dmac *pl330) > > /* Detach the req */ > descdone = thrd->req[active].desc; > + descdone->xferred = true; > thrd->req[active].desc = NULL; Looking at the code indeed the small window could happen. How can I reproduce it? Can you describe your system? As for the change itself, how about adding a new value to desc_status? Now you are actually introducing a semi-status field. Best regards, Krzysztof > > thrd->req_running = -1; > @@ -2250,13 +2256,14 @@ pl330_tx_status(struct dma_chan *chan, dma_cookie_t cookie, > goto out; > > spin_lock_irqsave(&pch->lock, flags); > + spin_lock(&pch->thread->dmac->lock); > > if (pch->thread->req_running != -1) > running = pch->thread->req[pch->thread->req_running].desc; > > /* Check in pending list */ > list_for_each_entry(desc, &pch->work_list, node) { > - if (desc->status == DONE) > + if (desc->xferred || desc->status == DONE) > transferred = desc->bytes_requested; > else if (running && desc == running) > transferred = > @@ -2281,6 +2288,7 @@ pl330_tx_status(struct dma_chan *chan, dma_cookie_t cookie, > if (desc->last) > residual = 0; > } > + spin_unlock(&pch->thread->dmac->lock); > spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pch->lock, flags); > > out: > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/