Re: [PATCH v3] dma: add driver for R-Car HPB-DMAC

From: Guennadi Liakhovetski
Date: Sat Sep 14 2013 - 17:31:59 EST


Hi Sergei

On Sat, 14 Sep 2013, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:

> Hello.
>
> On 09/14/2013 10:33 PM, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
>
> > > From: Max Filippov <max.filippov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > > Add support for HPB-DMAC found in Renesas R-Car SoCs, using 'shdma-base'
> > > DMA
> > > driver framework.
>
> > > Based on the original patch by Phil Edworthy <phil.edworthy@xxxxxxxxxxx>.
>
> > > Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <max.filippov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > [Sergei: removed useless #include, sorted #include's, fixed
> > > HPB_DMA_TCR_MAX,
> > > fixed formats and removed line breaks in the dev_dbg() calls, rephrased
> > > and
> > > added IRQ # to the shdma_request_irq() failure message, added
> > > MODULE_AUTHOR(),
> > > removed '__init'/'__exit' annotations from the probe()/remove() methods,
> > > removed
> > > '__initdata' annotation from 'hpb_dmae_driver', fixed guard macro name in
> > > the
> > > header file, fixed #define ASYNCRSTR_ASRST20, added #define
> > > ASYNCRSTR_ASRST24,
> > > added the necessary runtime PM calls to the probe() and remove() methods,
> > > handled errors returned by dma_async_device_register(), beautified
> > > comments
> > > and #define's.]
> > > Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > > ---
>
> > [snip]
>
> > > Index: slave-dma/drivers/dma/sh/rcar-hpbdma.c
> > > ===================================================================
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ slave-dma/drivers/dma/sh/rcar-hpbdma.c
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,655 @@
>
> > [snip]
>
> > > +static int hpb_dmae_chan_probe(struct hpb_dmae_device *hpbdev, int id)
> > > +{
> > > + struct shdma_dev *sdev = &hpbdev->shdma_dev;
> > > + struct platform_device *pdev =
> > > + to_platform_device(hpbdev->shdma_dev.dma_dev.dev);
> > > + struct hpb_dmae_chan *new_hpb_chan;
> > > + struct shdma_chan *schan;
> > > +
> > > + /* Alloc channel */
> > > + new_hpb_chan = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev,
> > > + sizeof(struct hpb_dmae_chan), GFP_KERNEL);
> > > + if (!new_hpb_chan) {
> > > + dev_err(hpbdev->shdma_dev.dma_dev.dev,
> > > + "No free memory for allocating DMA channels!\n");
> > > + return -ENOMEM;
> > > + }
> > > +
> > > + schan = &new_hpb_chan->shdma_chan;
>
> > A suggestion for an incremental patch - you might want to initialise the
> > max_xfer_len field like
>
> > schan->max_xfer_len = 64 * 1024 * 1024 - 1;
>
> IIRC, the HPB-DMAC's maximum transfer length is 16 MiB, without -1. You
> probably mixed it with LBSC-DMAC which is indeed capable of 64 MiB.

Sorry, no idea what the correct value for HPB DMAC is. This was just an
example.

Thanks
Guennadi

> > because if it isn't initialised your max transfer length will be 4k,
> > which will hurt your performance. I think you should get a better
> > throughput after that
>
> OK, note taken. We'll look into it.
>
> WBR, Sergei

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Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
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http://www.open-technology.de/
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