Re: [PATCH v4 5/5] spi: spi-qcom-qspi: Add DMA mode support

[Doug Anderson]

Hi,

On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 9:58 AM Vijaya Krishna Nivarthi
<quic_vnivarth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks a lot for the review and inputs...
>
>
> On 4/20/2023 10:49 PM, Doug Anderson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 6:13 AM Vijaya Krishna Nivarthi
> > <quic_vnivarth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> @@ -137,11 +155,29 @@ enum qspi_clocks {
> >>          QSPI_NUM_CLKS
> >>   };
> >>
> >> +enum qspi_xfer_mode {
> >> +       QSPI_FIFO,
> >> +       QSPI_DMA
> >> +};
> >> +
> >> +/*
> >> + * Number of entries in sgt returned from spi framework that-
> >> + * will be supported. Can be modified as required.
> >> + * In practice, given max_dma_len is 64KB, the number of
> >> + * entries is not expected to exceed 1.
> >> + */
> >> +#define QSPI_MAX_SG 5
> > I actually wonder if this would be more nicely done just using a
> > linked list, which naturally mirrors how SGs work anyway. You'd add
> > "struct list_head" to the end of "struct qspi_cmd_desc" and just store
> > a pointer to the head in "struct qcom_qspi".
> >
> > For freeing, you can always get back the "virtual" address because
> > it's just the address of each node. You can always get back the
> > physical address because it's stored in "data_address".
> >
> Please note that in "struct qspi_cmd_desc"
>
> data_address - dma_address of data buffer returned by spi framework
>
> next_descriptor - dma_address of the next descriptor in chain
>
>
> If we were to have a linked list of descriptors that we can parse and
> free, it would require 2 more fields
>
> this_descriptor_dma - dma address of the current descriptor

Isn't that exactly the same value as "data_address"? Sure,
"data_address" is a u32 and the DMA address is 64-bits, but elsewhere
in the code you already rely on the fact that the upper bits of the
DMA address are 0 when you do:

virt_cmd_desc->data_address = dma_ptr


> next_descriptor_virt - virtual address of the next descriptor in chain

Right, this would be the value of the next node in the linked list,
right? So basically by adding a list_node_t you can find it easily.


> >> +static int qcom_qspi_alloc_desc(struct qcom_qspi *ctrl, dma_addr_t dma_ptr,
> >> +                       uint32_t n_bytes)
> >> +{
> >> +       struct qspi_cmd_desc *virt_cmd_desc, *prev;
> >> +       dma_addr_t dma_cmd_desc;
> >> +
> >> +       /* allocate for dma cmd descriptor */
> >> +       virt_cmd_desc = (struct qspi_cmd_desc *)dma_pool_alloc(ctrl->dma_cmd_pool,
> >> +               GFP_KERNEL, &dma_cmd_desc);
> > Remove unnecessary cast; "void *" assigns fine w/out a cast.
> >
> > Add "| GFP_ZERO" and then get rid of the need to clear the "reserved"
> > and "next_descriptor" stuff below.
> >
> I needed __GFP_ZERO to prevent a compile error, used same.

Ah, sorry. Sounds good.

-Doug