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Commit 8ac69546 authored by Russell King - ARM Linux's avatar Russell King - ARM Linux Committed by Vinod Koul
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dmaengine: ensure all DMA engine drivers initialize their cookies



Ensure all DMA engine drivers initialize their cookies in the same way,
so that they all behave in a similar fashion.  This means their first
issued cookie will be 2 rather than 1, and will increment to INT_MAX
before returning 1 and starting over.

In connection with this, Dan Williams said:
> Russell King wrote:
> > Secondly, some DMA engine drivers initialize the dma_chan cookie to 0,
> > others to 1.  Is there a reason for this, or are these all buggy?
>
> I know that ioat and iop-adma expect 0 to mean "I have cleaned up this
> descriptor and it is idle", and would break if zero was an in-flight
> cookie value.  The reserved usage of zero is an driver internal
> concern, but I have no problem formalizing it as a reserved value.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: default avatarLinus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarLinus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Acked-by: default avatarJassi Brar <jassisinghbrar@gmail.com>
[imx-sdma.c & mxs-dma.c]
Tested-by: default avatarShawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarVinod Koul <vinod.koul@linux.intel.com>
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