[PATCH v2 1/2] i2c: add DMA support for freescale i2c driver

[Yao Yuan]

On Thu, March 06, 2014 at 12:44:14 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On Thursday, March 06, 2014 at 05:36:14 AM, Yao Yuan wrote:
> > On Thu, March 06, 2014 at 11:23:50 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, March 05, 2014 at 07:52:31 AM, Yuan Yao wrote:
> > > > Add dma support for i2c. This function depend on DMA driver.
> > > > You can turn on it by write both the dmas and dma-name properties
> > > > in dts node.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Yuan Yao <yao.yuan at freescale.com>
> > > > ---
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > > @@ -601,6 +826,7 @@ static int i2c_imx_probe(struct
> > > > platform_device
> > >
> > > *pdev)
> > >
> > > >  	void __iomem *base;
> > > >  	int irq, ret;
> > > >  	u32 bitrate;
> > > >
> > > > +	u32 phy_addr;
> > > >
> > > >  	dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "<%s>\n", __func__);
> > > >
> > > > @@ -611,6 +837,7 @@ static int i2c_imx_probe(struct
> > > > platform_device
> > >
> > > *pdev)
> > >
> > > >  	}
> > > >
> > > >  	res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
> > > >
> > > > +	phy_addr = res->start;
> > >
> > > Uh ... Shawn, I really think I am lost here. Don't you need to map
> > > this memory before you can use it for DMA ? The DMA mapping function
> > > should give you the physical address and is the right way to go
> > > about this instead of pulling the address from here, no ?
> > >
> > > I might be wrong here, I am rather uncertain, so please help me out.
> > > Thanks!
> >
> > Hi, Marek, Thanks for your suggestion.
> > Here you can review the code in include/linux/ioport.h The
> > resource->start describes the entity on the CPU bus as a starting
> > physical address. So I thinks it can used for dma directly.
> 
> This doesn't feel right for some reason. If this is a register area, you
> should
> ioremap() it. If it's a memory area you do DMA to/from, you need to make
> sure you correctly flush/invalidate caches and properly handle the
> effects the write buffer might have. But I have a feeling you actually do
> DMA to/from register space here ?
> 
Yes, It's a register area. But I don't know why I should ioremap() it? It's a bus address and DMA can use it directly.
Is there some problem for my understanding ?