of_dma_controller_free() was not called on module onloading.
This lead to a soft lockup:
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s!
Modules linked in: at_hdmac [last unloaded: at_hdmac]
when of_dma_request_slave_channel() tried to call ofdma->of_dma_xlate().