[PATCH 13/32] dmaengine: ste_dma40: Calculate number of logical channels from physical ones

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Thu Apr 25 05:13:16 EDT 2013


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org> wrote:

> This change will cost ~25KB of memory, but it's worth the trade-off,
> as it removes a great deal of overhead. It means that instead of only
> allocating memory for the logical channels in use, it does so for all
> available ones, which is 32 per physical channel. However, this now
> means we can remove some platform data and we don't have to worry
> about adding vendor specific variables to Device Tree.
>
> Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul at intel.com>
> Cc: Dan Williams <djbw at fb.com>
> Cc: Per Forlin <per.forlin at stericsson.com>
> Cc: Rabin Vincent <rabin at rab.in>
> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org>

(...)
>  static struct stedma40_platform_data dma40_plat_data = {
> -       .dev_len = DB8500_DMA_NR_DEV,

So that was set to 64 in the platform...

> -       /* Count the number of logical channels in use */
> -       for (i = 0; i < plat_data->dev_len; i++)
> -               if (plat_data->dev_rx[i] != 0)
> -                       num_log_chans++;
> -
> -       for (i = 0; i < plat_data->dev_len; i++)
> -               if (plat_data->dev_tx[i] != 0)
> -                       num_log_chans++;

And I guess this code snippet made it go down to <= 32 all the time,
correct?

Just want to understand it before I ACK. (The idea is sound.)

I notice there is no check whatsoever of the bounds of
plat_data->dev_[rx|tx]  but that is a different problem I guess...

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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