Re: [RESEND PATCH] ARM: dts: stm32: Add DMA support for STM32F746 SoC

From: Alexandre Torgue
Date: Fri Jul 28 2017 - 08:30:08 EST


Hi Pierre-Yves,

On 07/11/2017 08:54 AM, Pierre-Yves MORDRET wrote:
This patch adds DMA support for STM32F746 SoC.

Signed-off-by: Pierre-Yves MORDRET <pierre-yves.mordret@xxxxxx>
---
arch/arm/boot/dts/stm32f746.dtsi | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/stm32f746.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/stm32f746.dtsi
index c2765ce..bfffea4 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/stm32f746.dtsi
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/stm32f746.dtsi
@@ -344,6 +344,37 @@
assigned-clocks = <&rcc 1 CLK_HSE_RTC>;
assigned-clock-rates = <1000000>;
};
+
+ dma1: dma@40026000 {
+ compatible = "st,stm32-dma";
+ reg = <0x40026000 0x400>;
+ interrupts = <11>,
+ <12>,
+ <13>,
+ <14>,
+ <15>,
+ <16>,
+ <17>,
+ <47>;
+ clocks = <&rcc 0 21>;
+ #dma-cells = <4>;
+ };
+
+ dma2: dma@40026400 {
+ compatible = "st,stm32-dma";
+ reg = <0x40026400 0x400>;
+ interrupts = <56>,
+ <57>,
+ <58>,
+ <59>,
+ <60>,
+ <68>,
+ <69>,
+ <70>;
+ clocks = <&rcc 0 22>;
+ #dma-cells = <4>;
+ st,mem2mem;
+ };
};
};

Applied on stm32-dt-for-v4.14 branch.

However, I prefer to keep DMA nodes disabled.
Indeed on cortex-M7, dma allocations have to be done in a "strongly-ordered" area. So If you want to use DMA you need to create in your device tree a "reserved memory" area like that:

+ reserved-memory {
+ #address-cells = <1>;
+ #size-cells = <1>;
+ ranges;
+
+ linux,dma {
+ compatible = "shared-dma-pool";
+ linux,dma-default;
+ no-map;
+ reg = <0xd1c00000 0x400000>;
+ };
+ };

In the same time, you have to configure in the same way the cortex-m7 MPU in your bootloader.

FYI, patches are under review to configure MPU directly in the kernel (bootloader will not longer have to configure it). It seems also that discussions are ongoing about the way to declare "linux,dma" area in devicetree.
As soon all discussions will close and MPU patches applied, we will be able to enable DMA.

Regards
Alex