[PATCH v3 1/4] dmaengine: mmp-pdma support

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tuesday 14 August 2012, Zhangfei Gao wrote:
> 1. virtual channel vs. physical channel
> Virtual channel is managed by dmaengine
> Physical channel handling resource, such as irq
> Physical channel is alloced dynamically as descending priority,
> freed immediately when irq done.
> The availble highest priority physically channel will alwayes be alloced
> 
> Issue pending list -> alloc highest dma physically channel available -> dma done -> free physically channel
> 
> 2. list: running list & pending list
> submit: desc list -> pending list
> issue_pending_list: if (IDLE) pending list -> running list; free pending list (RUN)
> irq: free running list (IDLE)
>      check pendlist -> pending list -> running list; free pending list (RUN)
> 
> 3. irq:
> Each list generate one irq, calling callback
> One list may contain several desc chain, in such case, make sure only the last desc list generate irq.
> 
> 4. async
> Submit will add desc chain to pending list, which can be multi-called
> If multi desc chain is submitted, only the last desc would generate irq -> call back
> If IDLE, issue_pending_list start pending_list, transforming pendlist to running list
> If RUN, irq will start pending list
> 
> 5. test
> 5.1 pxa3xx_nand on pxa910
> 5.2 insmod dmatest.ko (threads_per_chan=y)
> By default drivers/dma/dmatest.c test every channel and test memcpy with 1 threads per channel
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao at marvell.com>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>