dmaengine: rcar-dmac: Handle hardware descriptor allocation failure
authorJürg Billeter <j@bitron.ch>
Tue, 25 Nov 2014 14:10:17 +0000 (15:10 +0100)
committerLaurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
Tue, 23 Dec 2014 09:13:03 +0000 (11:13 +0200)
If the atomic DMA coherent pool is too small, disable use of hardware
descriptor lists instead of crashing the system:

ERROR: 256 KiB atomic DMA coherent pool is too small!
Please increase it with coherent_pool= kernel parameter!

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000004
Internal error: Oops: a07 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM

PC is at rcar_dmac_chan_reinit+0x3c/0x160
LR is at _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x18/0x5c

[<802132c0>] (rcar_dmac_chan_reinit) from [<80214818>] (rcar_dmac_isr_error+0x84/0xa0)
[<80214818>] (rcar_dmac_isr_error) from [<80060484>] (handle_irq_event_percpu+0x50/0x150)
[<80060484>] (handle_irq_event_percpu) from [<800605c0>] (handle_irq_event+0x3c/0x5c)
[<800605c0>] (handle_irq_event) from [<8006350c>] (handle_fasteoi_irq+0xb8/0x198)
[<8006350c>] (handle_fasteoi_irq) from [<8005fdb0>] (generic_handle_irq+0x20/0x30)
[<8005fdb0>] (generic_handle_irq) from [<8000fcd0>] (handle_IRQ+0x50/0xc4)
[<8000fcd0>] (handle_IRQ) from [<800092cc>] (gic_handle_irq+0x28/0x5c)
[<800092cc>] (gic_handle_irq) from [<80012700>] (__irq_svc+0x40/0x70)

Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

Signed-off-by: Jürg Billeter <j@bitron.ch>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c

index f71a3dc89048b66d2a0ec16ec6ee9129893849c1..29dd09ad41ff292c8084a33f49e06a47117c04f8 100644 (file)
@@ -679,8 +679,8 @@ static void rcar_dmac_realloc_hwdesc(struct rcar_dmac_chan *chan,
        desc->hwdescs.size = size;
 }
 
-static void rcar_dmac_fill_hwdesc(struct rcar_dmac_chan *chan,
-                                 struct rcar_dmac_desc *desc)
+static int rcar_dmac_fill_hwdesc(struct rcar_dmac_chan *chan,
+                                struct rcar_dmac_desc *desc)
 {
        struct rcar_dmac_xfer_chunk *chunk;
        struct rcar_dmac_hw_desc *hwdesc;
@@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ static void rcar_dmac_fill_hwdesc(struct rcar_dmac_chan *chan,
 
        hwdesc = desc->hwdescs.mem;
        if (!hwdesc)
-               return;
+               return -ENOMEM;
 
        list_for_each_entry(chunk, &desc->chunks, node) {
                hwdesc->sar = chunk->src_addr;
@@ -697,6 +697,8 @@ static void rcar_dmac_fill_hwdesc(struct rcar_dmac_chan *chan,
                hwdesc->tcr = chunk->size >> desc->xfer_shift;
                hwdesc++;
        }
+
+       return 0;
 }
 
 /* -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -917,8 +919,10 @@ rcar_dmac_chan_prep_sg(struct rcar_dmac_chan *chan, struct scatterlist *sgl,
         * additional complexity remains to be investigated.
         */
        desc->hwdescs.use = !highmem && nchunks > 1;
-       if (desc->hwdescs.use)
-               rcar_dmac_fill_hwdesc(chan, desc);
+       if (desc->hwdescs.use) {
+               if (rcar_dmac_fill_hwdesc(chan, desc) < 0)
+                       desc->hwdescs.use = false;
+       }
 
        return &desc->async_tx;
 }