[PATCH v2 0/9] DMA engine cookie handling cleanups
Nicolas Ferre
nicolas.ferre at atmel.com
Tue Mar 13 07:45:56 EDT 2012
On 03/06/2012 11:33 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux :
> [v2 - more or less same description. Including lakml in cc for the full
> set]
>
> This patch series cleans up the handling of cookies in DMA engine drivers.
> This is done by providing a set of inline library functions for common
> tasks:
>
> - moving the 'last completed cookie' into struct dma_chan - everyone
> has this in their driver private channel data structure
>
> - consolidate allocation of cookies to DMA descriptors
>
> - common way to update 'last completed cookie' value
>
> - standard way to implement tx_status callback and update the residue
>
> - consolidate initialization of cookies
>
> - update implementations differing from the majority of DMA engine drivers
> to behave the same as the majority implementation in respect of cookies
>
> What this means is that we get to the point where all DMA engine drivers
> will hand out cookie value '2' as the first, and incrementing cookie
> values up to INT_MAX, returning to cookie '1' as the next cookie.
>
> Think of this patch series as round 1... I am hoping over time that more
> code can be consolidated between the DMA engine drivers and end up with a
> consistent way to handle various common themes in DMA engine hardware
> (like physical channel<->peripheral request signal selection.)
>
> Overall, the diffstat looks like this:
>
> arch/arm/include/asm/hardware/iop_adma.h | 2 -
> drivers/dma/amba-pl08x.c | 38 ++++---------
> drivers/dma/at_hdmac.c | 48 ++++------------
> drivers/dma/at_hdmac_regs.h | 2 -
For at_hdmac Atmel DMA driver:
Tested-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre at atmel.com>
Thanks a lot Russell.
Best regards,
--
Nicolas Ferre
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