[PATCH v1 3/4] Crypto: Add support for APM X-Gene SoC CRC32C h/w accelerator driver

Rameshwar Sahu rsahu at apm.com
Thu Aug 20 00:01:44 PDT 2015


Hi Vinod,

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul at intel.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 05:41:07PM +0530, Rameshwar Prasad Sahu wrote:
>> +     nents = sg_nents(req->src);
>> +     sg_count = dma_map_sg(dev, req->src, nents, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
>> +     if (!sg_count) {
>> +             dev_err(dev, "Failed to map src sg");
>> +             return -ENOMEM;
> mapping error shouldn't be no mem error
Okay, I guess then -EIO will be fine here??
>
>> +     }
>> +
>> +     if (sg_count > XGENE_DMA_MAX_FLYBY_SRC_CNT) {
>> +             dev_err(dev, "Unsupported src sg len\n");
> would be worth printing length
Okay,
>
>> +             goto err;
>> +     }
>> +
>> +     flags = DMA_CTRL_ACK;
> why ACK?
My understanding about DMA_CTRL_ACK is dma engine driver can
re-use/free this descriptor once operation completed in cleanup path.
Am I correct ??
But yes, I need to look on this because recently you have added one
more descriptor flag.

>
>> +
>> +     tx = dchan->device->device_prep_dma_crc32c(dchan, req->src,
>> +                                                req->nbytes,
>> +                                                reqctx->seed,
>> +                                                req->result,
>> +                                                flags);
> We should add helper for this
Okay
>
> --
> ~Vinod
>



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