[PATCH v7 00/16] Add support for FDMA DMA controller and slim core rproc found on STi chipsets

Peter Griffin peter.griffin at linaro.org
Mon Aug 1 10:10:37 PDT 2016


Hi Vinod, Bjorn, Patrice,

This patchset adds support for the Flexible Direct Memory Access (FDMA) core
found on STi chipsets from STMicroelectronics. The FDMA is a slim core CPU
with a dedicated firmware. It is a general purpose DMA controller supporting
16 independent channels and data can be moved from memory to memory or between
memory and paced latency critical real time targets.

After some discussion with the DT maintainers I've removed the firmware
name from DT, and now generate the name based on the compatible string.
This is in keeping with how most other kernel drivers request firmware, and avoids
a new DT firmware name or fdma id binding.

I've also dropped the dma xbar support for the moment, as I believe it should be
re-worked based on some of the xbar API's that TI recently added. As requested
I've also split it into smaller patches to help with a faster review.

V3 also included some updates to the ASoC st,sti-asoc-card.txt DT documentation
to make the doc align with the driver code. These patches have already been applied
and are now dropped from this series. Other changes included enabling the ASoC drivers
in multi_v7 defconfig and adding DT patches for Patrices STi DT tree to enable ASoC
on STiH407/10 based platforms using the fdma driver.

v4 includes a new slim core rproc driver for loading the slim elf firmware. This
enables us to use the generic rproc elf loading code. This has deliberately not
been implemented as a platform_driver, to avoid having to have double mappings of
I/O memory from two device drivers, and also to ensure that the DT node reflects
the actual hardware rather than Linux subsystems. The slim core is the basis
for various pieces of IP in STi chipsets and the intention is that other drivers
(e.g. demux) can also be migrated over to using the slim rproc for their
elf firmware loading and start/stop control.

v5 includes various updates from Bjorn related to the slim rproc implementation.
It also includes a patch to make rsc_table optional in remoteproc_core and various
other cleanups and review feedback from Vinod to do with the actual fdma
implementation. It also fixes a regression introduced in v4 when all drivers are
built-in spotted by Aranud.

v6 goes back to having a dummy rsc_table and fixes some kbuild warnings. However
a change is still required in rproc core when all drivers are built-in as the initial
async firmware resource table parsing can fail when built-in, which causes subsequent calls
to rproc_boot() to also fail. V6 changes this behaviour to retry rproc_fw_config_virtio()
from rproc_boot(), in cases where it previously failed, as at this point we know the
irmwaref has been successfully obtained.

v7 removes all remoteproc core changes required to get -EPROBE_DEFER working properly
when firmware resides on a rootfs and compiling as built-in. The fdma driver now relies on
the firmware being available in the initramfs when building fdma as built-in. This has
been tested and works well. If remoteproc subsystem implements a new mechanism for
firmware on late mounted root filesystems, we can migrate this driver over to use it
at that point.

regards,

Peter.

Changes since v6:
 - Fix recursive Kconfig warning (Patrice)
 - Fix various Intel zero day compiler warnings
 - Remove all changes related to late firmware load (now relies on initramfs) (Peter)

Changes since v5:
 - Remove optional rsc table and go back to dummy resource table (Bjorn)
 - Retry rproc_fw_config_virtio() from rproc_boot() if previously failed (Peter)
 - Fixup some kbuild warnings
 - rebase on v4.7-rc5
 - Remove some patches which were merged via ASoC tree

Changes since v4:
 - Make rsc table optional in remoteproc (Peter)
 - Various fixups to STi audio DT nodes (Arnaud)
 - Bulk rename of xp70 to slim (Peter)
 - Update my email to @linaro.org (Lee)
 - rebase on v4.7-rc2 (Peter)
 - Don't make ST_SLIM_REMOTEPROC user selectable (Bjorn)
 - -EPROBE_DEFER if rproc_boot fails when allocating DMA channel (Arnaud / Peter)
 - Drop some unnecessary headers (Vinod / Bjorn)
 - Change to writel now we have several mappings (Bjorn)
 - Remove io_res, rproc, and some unused structure fields / #define (Bjorn)
 - put clks in error path, also put clks before rproc_put() (Bjorn)
 - Make enum less generic (Bjorn)
 - Make slim_rproc_alloc() return a st_slim_rproc reference (Bjorn)
 - Alphabetical naming in Kconfig & Makefile (Vinod)
 - Add FDMA prefix to REQ_CTRL* (Vinod)
 - Print ret on some error paths (Vinod)
 - Add some acked-by (Peter)

Changes since v3:
 - Remove elf loading code from fdma driver (Vinod)
 - Remove fdma_ prefix for clock names (Arnd)
 - Make _xlate use dma_get_any_channel rather than request_channel (Arnd)
 - Make a common function for _prep_ routines (Vinod)
 - Make driver depend on COMPILE_TEST (Arnd)
 - Remove unnecessary st_fdma_filter_fn (Arnd)
 - Enable FDMA as a module (Arnd)
 - Drop fdma_ clock prefix (Arnd)
 - Fix description as well as example for st, prefix (Arnd)
 - Remove string concatenation from fdma register macros to ease grep'ability (Arnd)
 - Add a XP70 rproc driver for ELF firmware loading and start/stop control (Peter)
 - Add myself as a author of the driver (Peter)

Changes since v2:
 - Change to dma-controller (Arnd)
 - Remove platform data header file and simplifiy code (Arnd)
 - Remove FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK and rework firmware loading to device config (Vinod)
 - Use SET_RUNTIME_PM_OPS helpers (Vinod)
 - Remove fdma-id dt prop and use compatibles to generate different fdma firmware names (Arnd / Lee)
 - Add sti-asoc-card DT nodes and pinmux config for uniperif player & reader (Peter)
 - Update sti-asoc-card DT binding documentation (Peter)
 - Enable STi audio drivers in multi_v7_defconfig (Peter)

Changes since v1:
 - split into smaller patches for easier / faster review (Vinod)
 - new fill_hw_mode() with common code (Vinod)
 - new config_reqctrl() called from *_prep() instead of device_config cb (Vinod)
 - fdma-xbar support removed (Peter)
 - rework firmware name mechanism so fwname isn't in DT (Peter / Lee)
 - st_fdma_seg_to_mem can be static (Paul)
 - EXPORT_SYMBOL st_fdma_filter_fn not required (Paul)
 - s/channel/channels (vinod)
 - better describe "Must be <3>" (vinod)
 - sizeof(*ehdr) (vinod)
 - print values on error debug (vinod)
 - empty line (Vinod)
 - Update to -EIO (Vinod)
 - Make st_fdma tristate (Paul)
 - Remove __exit tag from .remove (Maxime)
 - Update MAINTAINERS rule to fdma* (Lee)
 - Unit address should match reg property (Lee)

Peter Griffin (16):
  remoteproc: st_slim_rproc: add a slimcore rproc driver
  MAINTAINERS: Add st slim core rproc driver to STi section.
  dmaengine: st_fdma: Add STMicroelectronics FDMA DT binding
    documentation
  dmaengine: st_fdma: Add STMicroelectronics FDMA driver header file
  dmaengine: st_fdma: Add STMicroelectronics FDMA engine driver support
  ARM: STi: DT: STiH407: Add FDMA driver dt nodes.
  MAINTAINERS: Add FDMA driver files to STi section.
  ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: Enable STi FDMA driver
  ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: Enable STi and simple-card drivers.
  ARM: DT: STiH407: Add i2s_out pinctrl configuration
  ARM: DT: STiH407: Add i2s_in pinctrl configuration
  ARM: DT: STiH407: Add spdif_out pinctrl config
  ARM: STi: DT: STiH407: Add sti-sasg-codec dt node
  ARM: STi: DT: STiH407: Add uniperif player dt nodes
  ARM: STi: DT: STiH407: Add uniperif reader dt nodes
  ARM: DT: STi: stihxxx-b2120: Add DT nodes for STi audio card

 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/st_fdma.txt |  87 +++
 MAINTAINERS                                       |   3 +
 arch/arm/boot/dts/stih407-family.dtsi             | 161 ++++
 arch/arm/boot/dts/stih407-pinctrl.dtsi            |  55 ++
 arch/arm/boot/dts/stihxxx-b2120.dtsi              |  45 ++
 arch/arm/configs/multi_v7_defconfig               |   4 +
 drivers/dma/Kconfig                               |  15 +-
 drivers/dma/Makefile                              |   1 +
 drivers/dma/st_fdma.c                             | 880 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/dma/st_fdma.h                             | 244 ++++++
 drivers/remoteproc/Kconfig                        |   7 +
 drivers/remoteproc/Makefile                       |   1 +
 drivers/remoteproc/st_slim_rproc.c                | 376 +++++++++
 include/linux/remoteproc/st_slim_rproc.h          |  53 ++
 14 files changed, 1931 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/st_fdma.txt
 create mode 100644 drivers/dma/st_fdma.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/dma/st_fdma.h
 create mode 100644 drivers/remoteproc/st_slim_rproc.c
 create mode 100644 include/linux/remoteproc/st_slim_rproc.h

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