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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2009-07-14 15:19:02 -0400
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2009-08-29 22:09:27 -0400
commit95475e57113c66aac7583925736ed2e2d58c990d (patch)
tree933aa0ca3bffef5b1457c516fbe3e8690b4c4cb1 /include/linux/dmaengine.h
parentaf1f951eb6ef27b01cbfb3f6c21b770af4368a6d (diff)
async_tx: remove walk of tx->parent chain in dma_wait_for_async_tx
We currently walk the parent chain when waiting for a given tx to complete however this walk may race with the driver cleanup routine. The routines in async_raid6_recov.c may fall back to the synchronous path at any point so we need to be prepared to call async_tx_quiesce() (which calls dma_wait_for_async_tx). To remove the ->parent walk we guarantee that every time a dependency is attached ->issue_pending() is invoked, then we can simply poll the initial descriptor until completion. This also allows for a lighter weight 'issue pending' implementation as there is no longer a requirement to iterate through all the channels' ->issue_pending() routines as long as operations have been submitted in an ordered chain. async_tx_issue_pending() is added for this case. Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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