[PATCH v8 0/2] sDMA descriptor autoloading feature

Shilimkar, Santosh santosh.shilimkar at ti.com
Wed May 5 05:32:00 EDT 2010


> -----Original Message-----
> From: svenkatr at gmail.com [mailto:svenkatr at gmail.com] On Behalf Of S, Venkatraman
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 10:09 AM
> To: Chikkature Rajashekar, Madhusudhan
> Cc: linux-omap at vger.kernel.org; linux-mmc at vger.kernel.org; linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org; Tony
> Lindgren; Adrian Hunter; Shilimkar, Santosh
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 0/2] sDMA descriptor autoloading feature
> 
> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Madhusudhan <madhu.cr at ti.com> wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: svenkatr at gmail.com [mailto:svenkatr at gmail.com] On Behalf Of
> >> Venkatraman S
> >> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 12:35 PM
> >> To: linux-omap at vger.kernel.org; linux-mmc at vger.kernel.org; linux-arm-
> >> kernel at lists.infradead.org
> >> Cc: Madhusudhan Chikkature; Tony Lindgren; Adrian Hunter; Santosh
> >> Shilimkar
> >> Subject: [PATCH v8 0/2] sDMA descriptor autoloading feature
> >>
> >>     This patch series is the introduction of new sDMA feature: descriptor
> >> autoloading (v8) and it's adoption by the OMAP HSMMC driver.
> >>
> >>    The previous version (v7) was blocked on achieving proper interrupt
> >> syncronisation
> >> between the MMC and DMA callback in the HSMMC driver.
> >>   Thanks to Adrian Hunter's patch,
> >> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/94670/
> >> this has been cleaned up.
> >>
> >> Current version is based on for-next branch + Adrian Hunter's
> >> interrupt syncronisation patch
> >> (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/94670)
> >>
> >> Changes since v7:
> >>   * Removed the 'fix race condition between DMA and HSMMC callback'
> >> part of the series
> >>   * Added memory barries in start and resume sglist transfer for cpu
> >> buffer syncronization
> >>   * Cleanup and comments
> >>
> >> This has been tested on OMAP3430, OMAP3630 and OMAP4430 SDP
> >> for MMC file transfer and as boot file system.
> >>
> >
> > The HSMMC driver changes look good to me. I can ACK that but am not a DMA
> > expert to review your changes to the DMA driver.
> >
Venkat, 
Sorry for late comments on your series.
 



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