Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] dmaengine: dw-axi-dmac: Use bitfield helpers for registers

From: Jia Wang

Date: Tue Sep 01 2026 - 05:00:26 EST


On 2026-09-01 10:02 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 01, 2026 at 02:16:07PM +0800, Jia Wang wrote:
> > The driver open-codes several channel configuration and descriptor
> > control bitfield writes with left shifts. Define masks for those fields
> > and use FIELD_PREP() when programming the registers.
> >
> > Valid field values keep the same encoding. FIELD_PREP() confines values
> > to their respective fields, but does not validate handshake numbers
> > supplied through DMA specifiers.
>
> ...
>
> > {
> > u32 cfg_lo, cfg_hi;
> >
> > - cfg_lo = (config->dst_multblk_type << CH_CFG_L_DST_MULTBLK_TYPE_POS |
> > - config->src_multblk_type << CH_CFG_L_SRC_MULTBLK_TYPE_POS);
> > + cfg_lo = FIELD_PREP(CH_CFG_L_DST_MULTBLK_TYPE, config->dst_multblk_type) |
> > + FIELD_PREP(CH_CFG_L_SRC_MULTBLK_TYPE, config->src_multblk_type);
>
> Personally I would duplicate this to make each branch self-contained.
>

Agreed. I will initialize cfg_lo separately in each branch in the next
version.

> > if (chan->chip->dw->hdata->reg_map_8_channels &&
> > !chan->chip->dw->hdata->use_cfg2) {
> > - cfg_hi = config->tt_fc << CH_CFG_H_TT_FC_POS |
> > - config->hs_sel_src << CH_CFG_H_HS_SEL_SRC_POS |
> > - config->hs_sel_dst << CH_CFG_H_HS_SEL_DST_POS |
> > - config->src_per << CH_CFG_H_SRC_PER_POS |
> > - config->dst_per << CH_CFG_H_DST_PER_POS |
> > - config->prior << CH_CFG_H_PRIORITY_POS;
>
> cfg_lo = FIELD_PREP(CH_CFG_L_DST_MULTBLK_TYPE, config->dst_multblk_type) |
> FIELD_PREP(CH_CFG_L_SRC_MULTBLK_TYPE, config->src_multblk_type);
>
> > + cfg_hi = FIELD_PREP(CH_CFG_H_TT_FC, config->tt_fc) |
> > + FIELD_PREP(CH_CFG_H_HS_SEL_SRC, config->hs_sel_src) |
> > + FIELD_PREP(CH_CFG_H_HS_SEL_DST, config->hs_sel_dst) |
> > + FIELD_PREP(CH_CFG_H_SRC_PER, config->src_per) |
> > + FIELD_PREP(CH_CFG_H_DST_PER, config->dst_per) |
> > + FIELD_PREP(CH_CFG_H_PRIORITY, config->prior);
> > } else {
> > - cfg_lo |= config->src_per << CH_CFG2_L_SRC_PER_POS |
> > - config->dst_per << CH_CFG2_L_DST_PER_POS;
> > - cfg_hi = config->tt_fc << CH_CFG2_H_TT_FC_POS |
> > - config->hs_sel_src << CH_CFG2_H_HS_SEL_SRC_POS |
> > - config->hs_sel_dst << CH_CFG2_H_HS_SEL_DST_POS |
> > - config->prior << CH_CFG2_H_PRIORITY_POS;
> > + cfg_lo |= FIELD_PREP(CH_CFG2_L_SRC_PER, config->src_per) |
> > + FIELD_PREP(CH_CFG2_L_DST_PER, config->dst_per);
>
> cfg_lo = FIELD_PREP(CH_CFG_L_DST_MULTBLK_TYPE, config->dst_multblk_type) |
> FIELD_PREP(CH_CFG_L_SRC_MULTBLK_TYPE, config->src_multblk_type) |
> FIELD_PREP(CH_CFG2_L_SRC_PER, config->src_per) |
> FIELD_PREP(CH_CFG2_L_DST_PER, config->dst_per);
>
> > + cfg_hi = FIELD_PREP(CH_CFG2_H_TT_FC, config->tt_fc) |
> > + FIELD_PREP(CH_CFG2_H_HS_SEL_SRC, config->hs_sel_src) |
> > + FIELD_PREP(CH_CFG2_H_HS_SEL_DST, config->hs_sel_dst) |
> > + FIELD_PREP(CH_CFG2_H_PRIORITY, config->prior);
> > }
>
> ...
>
> > - reg = (DWAXIDMAC_BURST_TRANS_LEN_4 << CH_CTL_L_DST_MSIZE_POS |
> > - DWAXIDMAC_BURST_TRANS_LEN_4 << CH_CTL_L_SRC_MSIZE_POS |
> > - xfer_width << CH_CTL_L_DST_WIDTH_POS |
> > - xfer_width << CH_CTL_L_SRC_WIDTH_POS |
> > - DWAXIDMAC_CH_CTL_L_INC << CH_CTL_L_DST_INC_POS |
> > - DWAXIDMAC_CH_CTL_L_INC << CH_CTL_L_SRC_INC_POS);
> > + reg = (FIELD_PREP(CH_CTL_L_DST_MSIZE, DWAXIDMAC_BURST_TRANS_LEN_4) |
> > + FIELD_PREP(CH_CTL_L_SRC_MSIZE, DWAXIDMAC_BURST_TRANS_LEN_4) |
> > + FIELD_PREP(CH_CTL_L_DST_WIDTH, xfer_width) |
> > + FIELD_PREP(CH_CTL_L_SRC_WIDTH, xfer_width) |
> > + FIELD_PREP(CH_CTL_L_DST_INC, DWAXIDMAC_CH_CTL_L_INC) |
> > + FIELD_PREP(CH_CTL_L_SRC_INC, DWAXIDMAC_CH_CTL_L_INC));
>
> Unneeded parentheses.
>

I will drop the outer parentheses in the next version.

> --
> With Best Regards,
> Andy Shevchenko
>
>
>

Best regards,
Jia Wang