[PATCH 4/4] DMA: PL330: add device tree property for DMA_MEMCPY capability

Jassi Brar jaswinder.singh at linaro.org
Fri Nov 9 01:11:30 EST 2012


On 30 October 2012 14:51, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
<b.zolnierkie at samsung.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Monday 29 October 2012 22:45:48 Jassi Brar wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
>> <b.zolnierkie at samsung.com> wrote:
>> > * Add device tree (DT) property ("pl330,dma-memcpy") for DMA_MEMCPY
>> >   capability and instead of setting this capability unconditionally
>> >   in pl330_probe() do it only when property is present.
>> >
>> Perhaps we should pass the array of peripheral interfaces via DT, the
>> lack of which could imply MEMCPY capability ? (while it works, I doubt
>> if pl330 is supposed to have SLAVE and MEMCPY capabilities in any
>> instance)
>
> In case of PL330 on EXYNOS4 we have two interfaces with SLAVE capability
> and one interface with MEMCPY capability.  Could you please explain more
> the idea of passing the array of peripherals through DT so we can detect
> which interface has MEMCPY capability?
>
The DT node of a 'pdma' should have the array of indices of
peripherals it caters to (what is currently peri_id of 'struct
dma_pl330_platdata'). The array would be missing in the DT node of
'mdma' since all channels are equal.
During probe if the array, say as property 'peri_map', is missing from
DT node of the dmac, that would imply the dmac is 'mdma' and hence the
pl330.c sets DMA_MEMCPY in its cap_mask. Otherwise the peri_map
implies a 'pdma' and hence SLAVE|CYCLIC is set.


>> That would also be a step towards discarding "struct dma_pl330_platdata".
>
> I don't know if getting rid of "struct dma_pl330_platdata" is possible
> but we still need to come up with some way to pass the needed information
> through DT.  Do you have an idea how it could be done?
>
struct dma_pl330_platdata {
  u8 nr_valid_peri;
  u8 *peri_id;
      As explain above, these two should move to DT node of the dma controller.

  dma_cap_mask_t cap_mask;
      Should be set in pl330.c : MEMCPY for mdma,  SLAVE|CYCLIC for pdma

  unsigned mcbuf_sz;
      Currently unused and already safe enough default value set in driver.
}



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