On Sun, 2013-11-17 at 16:39 +0100, Florian Meier wrote:
> Add support for DMA controller of BCM2835 as used in the Raspberry Pi.
> Currently it only supports cyclic DMA.
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/bcm2835-dma.c b/drivers/dma/bcm2835-dma.c
[]
> +static int bcm2835_dma_control(struct dma_chan *chan, enum dma_ctrl_cmd cmd,
> +     unsigned long arg)
> +{
> +     struct bcm2835_chan *c = to_bcm2835_dma_chan(chan);
> +     int ret;
> +
> +     switch (cmd) {
> +     case DMA_SLAVE_CONFIG:
> +             return bcm2835_dma_slave_config(c,
> +                             (struct dma_slave_config *)arg);
> +
> +     case DMA_TERMINATE_ALL:
> +             bcm2835_dma_terminate_all(c);
> +             break;
> +
> +     default:
> +             ret = -ENXIO;
> +             break;
> +     }
> +
> +     return ret;
> +}

case DMA_TERMINATE_ALL returns an uninitialized ret;

[]

> +static struct dma_chan *bcm2835_dma_xlate(struct of_phandle_args *spec,
> +                                        struct of_dma *ofdma)
> +{
> +     struct bcm2835_dmadev *d = ofdma->of_dma_data;
> +     struct dma_chan *chan, *candidate;
> +
> +retry:
> +     candidate = NULL;
> +
> +     /* Walk the list of channels registered with the current instance and
> +      * find one that is currently unused */
> +     list_for_each_entry(chan, &d->ddev.channels, device_node)
> +             if (chan->client_count == 0) {
> +                     candidate = chan;
> +                     break;
> +             }
> +
> +     if (!candidate)
> +             return NULL;
> +
> +     /* dma_get_slave_channel will return NULL if we lost a race between
> +      * the lookup and the reservation */
> +     chan = dma_get_slave_channel(candidate);

Can that race happen consistently?
Does this avoid being a tight loop?

> +     if (chan) {
> +             struct bcm2835_chan *c = to_bcm2835_dma_chan(chan);
> +
> +             /* Set DREQ from param */
> +             c->dreq = spec->args[0];
> +
> +             return chan;
> +     }
> +
> +     goto retry;
> +}

Also, I think this would be better as:

        if (!chan)
                goto retry;

        to_bcm2835_dma_chan(chan)->dreq = spec->args[0];

        return chan;
}

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