RE: [PATCH v5 2/3] dmaengine: imx-sdma: fix dma freezes

2019-09-23 Thread Robin Gong
On 2019-9-23 21:58 Philipp Puschmann wrote: > For some years and since many kernel versions there are reports that the RX > UART SDMA channel stops working at some point. The workaround was to > disable DMA for RX. This commit fixes the problem itself. Cyclic DMA transfers > are used by uart and o

[PATCH v5 2/3] dmaengine: imx-sdma: fix dma freezes

2019-09-23 Thread Philipp Puschmann
For some years and since many kernel versions there are reports that the RX UART SDMA channel stops working at some point. The workaround was to disable DMA for RX. This commit fixes the problem itself. Cyclic DMA transfers are used by uart and other drivers and these can fail in at least two cases