[PATCH 0/2] pxa3xx: Data buffer dynamic allocation

Ezequiel Garcia ezequiel.garcia at free-electrons.com
Fri Oct 4 11:30:36 PDT 2013


As part of my work to support the NAND controllers in Armada 370/XP SoC
here's a tiny set of patches to replace the currently data buffer allocation
based in a hardcoded buffer size, into a dynamic scheme.

We first use kmalloc to request a 256 bytes (big enough for the ONFI paramater
page) and then re-allocate (either with kmalloc or using DMA allocators) using
the detected page size.

The first patch is required to perform the initial NAND operations (READID
and friends) using programmable I/O since the DMA buffers are not ready
at such early stage.

The second patch performs to actual dynamic allocation and it's exactly
the same patch I sent a few weeks ago:

  http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/275982/

Daniel: Can you test these two If they look fine we can add them now,
being an improvement to the driver pxa3xx beyond the Armada 370/XP effort.

Thanks!

Ezequiel Garcia (2):
  mtd: nand: pxa3xx: Move DMA I/O enabling
  mtd: nand: pxa3xx: Allocate data buffer on detected flash size

 drivers/mtd/nand/pxa3xx_nand.c | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

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