Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] dma: Add Xilinx AXI Video Direct Memory Access Engine driver support

[Srikanth Thokala]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 12:11 AM, Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-03-14 at 23:20 +0530, Srikanth Thokala wrote:
>> This is the driver for the AXI Video Direct Memory Access (AXI
>> VDMA) core, which is a soft Xilinx IP core that provides high-
>> bandwidth direct memory access between memory and AXI4-Stream
>> type video target peripherals. The core provides efficient two
>> dimensional DMA operations with independent asynchronous read
>> and write channel operation.
>>
>> This module works on Zynq (ARM Based SoC) and Microblaze platforms.
>
> Few comments below.
>

Sure.


> []
>
>> +++ b/drivers/dma/xilinx/xilinx_vdma.c
>
> []
>
>> +/**
>> + * xilinx_vdma_prep_slave_sg - prepare a descriptor for a DMA_SLAVE transaction
>> + * @dchan: DMA channel
>> + * @xt: Interleaved template pointer
>> + * @flags: transfer ack flags
>> + *
>> + * Return: Async transaction descriptor on success and NULL on failure
>> + */
>> +static struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *
>> +xilinx_vdma_dma_prep_interleaved(struct dma_chan *dchan,
>> +                              struct dma_interleaved_template *xt,
>> +                              unsigned long flags)
>> +{
>> +     struct xilinx_vdma_chan *chan = to_xilinx_chan(dchan);
>> +     struct xilinx_vdma_tx_descriptor *desc;
>> +     struct xilinx_vdma_tx_segment *segment, *prev = NULL;
>> +     struct xilinx_vdma_desc_hw *hw;
>> +
>> +     if ((xt->dir != DMA_MEM_TO_DEV) && (xt->dir != DMA_DEV_TO_MEM))
>> +             return NULL;
>
> !is_slave_direction()

Ok. I will fix it, Thanks.


>
> []
>
>> +static int xilinx_vdma_chan_probe(struct xilinx_vdma_device *xdev,
>> +                               struct device_node *node)
>> +{
>> +     struct xilinx_vdma_chan *chan;
>> +     bool has_dre = false;
>> +     u32 value, width;
>> +     int err;
>
> []
>
>> +     width = value >> 3; /* Convert bits to bytes */
>> +
>> +     /* If data width is greater than 8 bytes, DRE is not in hw */
>> +     if (width > 8)
>> +             has_dre = false;
>> +
>> +     if (!has_dre)
>> +             xdev->common.copy_align = fls(width - 1);
>
> Is width power of two? For me looks like it should be fls(width) - 1;

Yes, the width is always power of two.

>
> So, device can't work with alignment less than defined in this case,
> correct?

Yes, if Data Realignment Engine (DRE) is not present it should be
stream data width aligned.

>
> []
>
>> +/**
>> + * xilinx_vdma_probe - Driver probe function
>> + * @pdev: Pointer to the platform_device structure
>> + *
>> + * Return: '0' on success and failure value on error
>> + */
>> +static int xilinx_vdma_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>> +{
>> +     struct device_node *node = pdev->dev.of_node;
>> +     struct xilinx_vdma_device *xdev;
>> +     struct device_node *child;
>> +     struct resource *io;
>> +     u32 num_frames;
>> +     int i, err;
>> +
>> +     dev_info(&pdev->dev, "Probing xilinx axi vdma engine\n");
>
> dev_dbg? Or move this to the end of function and change text to
> something like "Probed ..."

I will go with your second option and I will fix it in my v6.

Thanks
Srikanth

>
>
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> Intel Finland Oy
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