[PATCH v2] PL330: Add PL330 DMA controller driver
Joonyoung Shim
jy0922.shim at samsung.com
Thu Mar 25 05:01:00 EDT 2010
On 3/25/2010 2:44 PM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:17:15 +0900
> Joonyoung Shim <jy0922.shim at samsung.com> wrote:
>
>> +/* instruction set functions */
>> +static inline int pl330_dmaaddh(u8 *desc_pool_virt, u16 imm, bool ra)
>> +{
>> + u8 opcode = DMAADDH | (ra << 1);
>> +
>> + writeb(opcode, desc_pool_virt++);
>
> desc_pool_virt is a virtual address (from dma_alloc_coherent). In such
> case, write[bwl] seems to be the wrong interface. I suggest the
> following code:
>
> *desc_pool_virt++ = opcode;
>
>> + writew(imm, desc_pool_virt);
>
Right. The write[bwl] is api for address ioremapped of io device. I will
change these.
> Does anything ensure that this won't generate an unaligned access?
>
PL330 DMA controller fetches variable length instructions that consist of
one to six bytes, so i think unaligned access is no problem.
>> + return 3;
>> +}
>
> M.
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