Re: [PATCH v7 2/2] dmaengine: dw-edma: Add non-LL mode

[Bjorn Helgaas]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 05:50:56PM +0530, Devendra K Verma wrote:
> AMD MDB IP supports Linked List (LL) mode as well as non-LL mode.
> The current code does not have the mechanisms to enable the
> DMA transactions using the non-LL mode. The following two cases
> are added with this patch:
> - For the AMD (Xilinx) only, when a valid physical base address of
>   the device side DDR is not configured, then the IP can still be
>   used in non-LL mode. For all the channels DMA transactions will
>   be using the non-LL mode only. This, the default non-LL mode,
>   is not applicable for Synopsys IP with the current code addition.
> 
> - If the default mode is LL-mode, for both AMD (Xilinx) and Synosys,
>   and if user wants to use non-LL mode then user can do so via
>   configuring the peripheral_config param of dma_slave_config.
> ...

> +++ b/drivers/dma/dw-edma/dw-edma-core.c
> @@ -223,8 +223,31 @@ static int dw_edma_device_config(struct dma_chan *dchan,
>  				 struct dma_slave_config *config)
>  {
>  	struct dw_edma_chan *chan = dchan2dw_edma_chan(dchan);
> +	int non_ll = 0;

Other "non_ll" uses below are bool, so a little bit of an int/bool
mix.

The name also leads to a lot of double negative use ("!non_ll", etc),
which is hard to read.  I suppose "non-LL" corresponds to some spec
language, but it would be nice if we could avoid some of the negation
by testing for "ll_mode" or calling the other mode "single_burst" or
similar.

> +	 * When there is no valid LLP base address available then the default
> +	 * DMA ops will use the non-LL mode.
> +	 * Cases where LL mode is enabled and client wants to use the non-LL
> +	 * mode then also client can do so via providing the peripheral_config
> +	 * param.

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