On Wed Sep 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM CEST, Suraj Gupta wrote:
> Remove the restrictive idle check in xilinx_dma_start_transfer() that
> prevented new transfers from being queued when the channel was busy.
> Additionally, only update the CURDESC register when the 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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Suraj Gupta <suraj.gupta2@amd.com>
Tested-by: Folker Schwesinger <dev@folker-schwesinger.de>
> ---
> drivers/dma/xilinx/xilinx_dma.c | 5 +----
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/xilinx/xilinx_dma.c b/drivers/dma/xilinx/xilinx_dma.c
> index 9f416eae33d0..7211c394cdca 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/xilinx/xilinx_dma.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/xilinx/xilinx_dma.c
> @@ -1548,9 +1548,6 @@ static void xilinx_dma_start_transfer(struct xilinx_dma_chan *chan)
> if (list_empty(&chan->pending_list))
> 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,
> @@ -1567,7 +1564,7 @@ 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;