Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] dma: Add Xilinx AXI Direct Memory Access Engine driver support

From: Vinod Koul
Date: Tue Sep 09 2014 - 12:22:35 EST


On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 12:52:16AM +0530, Srikanth Thokala wrote:
> Hi Vinod,
>
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 12:17:43PM +0530, Srikanth Thokala wrote:
> >> Hi Vinod,
> >>
> >> Apologies for the delay.
> >>
> >> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 05:47:49PM +0530, Srikanth Thokala wrote:
> >> >> +struct xilinx_dma_chan {
> >> >> + struct xilinx_dma_device *xdev;
> >> >> + u32 ctrl_offset;
> >> >> + spinlock_t lock;
> >> >> + struct list_head pending_list;
> >> >> + struct xilinx_dma_tx_descriptor *active_desc;
> >> >> + struct xilinx_dma_tx_descriptor *allocated_desc;
> >> >> + struct list_head done_list;
> >> >> + struct list_head free_seg_list;
> >> >> + struct dma_chan common;
> >> >> + struct xilinx_dma_tx_segment *seg_v;
> >> >> + dma_addr_t seg_p;
> >> >> + struct device *dev;
> >> >> + int irq;
> >> >> + int id;
> >> >> + enum dma_transfer_direction direction;
> >> > This looks suspect. Why should channel have direction, for a descriptor it
> >> > makes sense though.
> >>
> >> The channel only supports transfers in one direction. Either from memory to
> >> peripheral or from peripheral to memory, that's fixed and can't be changed
> >> at runtime. So, the driver needs to know which direction the channel supports
> >> and hence it can reject transfers with the wrong direction.
> > But you already have this information in descriptor so why duplicate?
>
> Our descriptor doesn't have the information of channel direction, we have this
> information only in the chan structure (struct xilinx_dma_chan) which
> is populated
> while parsing the DT. So, we use this information to ensure if we are servicing
> proper channel (in prep_slave_sg call).
One of the argument of prep_slave_sg call is direction. You need to use that
and store in in your descriptor for using it afterwards

> FYI: We also need the direction of the channel so that we can select SRC/DST
> register address in the issue_pending() call.
And you have the descriptor there as well so can use it

--
~Vinod

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