[PATCH] dmaengine: add CSR SiRFprimaII DMAC driver

[Barry Song]

2011/9/9 Vinod Koul <vkoul at infradead.org>:
> On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 14:36 +0800, Barry Song wrote:
>> 2011/9/8 Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar at gmail.com>:
>> > On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Barry Song <21cnbao at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>>> it is much different with primacell based DMA like pl080, pl330.
>> >>>>> prima2 has a self-defined DMAC IP. basically it is a 2D mode dma with
>> >>>>> two scales X and Y and direct way to start and stop DMA.
>> >>>>> every channel has fixed function to serve only one perpheral. so you
>> >>>>> find we have a filter id.
>> >>>> okay, what do you mean by 2D mode? Is it similar to what TI folks, Linus
>> >>>> W and Jassi Brar posted RFC's on?
>> >>>
>> >>> In SiRFprimaII 2-D DMA, the system memory space is interpreted
>> >>> as a 2-D layout instead of a linear 1-D layout. More specifically, the
>> >>> system memory can be considered as
>> >>> multiple data lines. The length of the data line is determined by the
>> >>> user-selected DMA_WIDTH register.
>> >>> The user can specify a data window that the user wants to access using
>> >>> four parameters:
>> >>> ■ Start address
>> >>> ■ X length
>> >>> ■ Y length
>> >>> ■ Width
>> >>>
>> >>> The idea of a 2-D DMA is shown in figure 2d-dma.png attached.
>> >>>
>> >>> If you specifies the Y length as 0 or the X length equals to the DMA
>> >>> width, then this 2-D DMA reduces to
>> >>> 1-D. If the user configures the X length greater than the DMA width,
>> >>> then the extra data is wrapped around
>> >>> to the next data line, this may corrupt the DMA transfer for
>> >>> multiple-line 2-D DMA. If this is a 1-D DMA, then
>> >>> there is no issue. The attached diagram 2d-dma2.png shows the
>> >>> wrap-around of the extra data in case the X length
>> >>> greater than DMA width.
>> >>
>> >> Sorry, the role of DMA_WIDTH is not clear to me yet.
>> >> In which case the user _must_ set {xlen > width} ?
>> >>
>> > Perhaps 2d-dma.PNG is inaccurate - it shouldn't depict any deltaX.
>> > Doesn't xlen and width always start together ? If no, please don't read ahead.
>> >
>> > According to figures, {xlen > width} is to be set _only_ when a transfer
>> > is divided into _exactly_ two chunks separated by gap _exactly_
>> > equal to length of the second chunk (an extremely rare case).
>>
>> Sorry i didn't list related full information in datasheet in my early reply.
>> we don't have the case of xlen > dma_width.
> What is intended usage of the 2D dma?

two cases:
1. continuous DMA:
xlen = DMA_WIDTH
2. interleaved DMA:
xlen < DMA_WIDTH

2 is for dma video/image or something like that.  For example, you
might only copy 1/9 of a nine-square grid by it.

>
> In first diagram you sent, x length is first block length to transfer
> and (dma_width - x_len) is length to skip, right?

(dma_width - x_len) is length to skip

>
> So what is the second diagram about? Is this juts a case when notion of
> xlen > dma_width? How much you transfer and how much you skip?

Actually, there is no real case for xlen > dma_width. this picture is
only explaining what will happen if we set xlen > dma_width.
when xlen > dma_width, for every line, dma will transfer only
dma_width. Then the extra data is wrapped around
to the next data line, it will corrupt the DMA transfer for
multiple-line 2-D DMA since the extra data will overlap with the real
next line.

if we set ylen to 0, the DMA becomes 1D, the wrap-around of the extra
data has no issue nobody will overlap with it.

>
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> ~Vinod Koul
> Intel Corp.
>
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-barry