[PATCHv9 0/6] dmaengine: rcar-dmac: add iommu support for slave transfers

Niklas Söderlund niklas.soderlund at ragnatech.se
Fri Sep 23 00:25:00 PDT 2016


Hi Vinod,

On 2016-09-15 21:56:51 +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 11:07:10PM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 01:22:13PM +0200, Niklas Söderlund wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > This series tries to solve the problem with DMA with device registers
> > > (MMIO registers) that are behind an IOMMU for the rcar-dmac driver. A
> > > recent patch '9575632 (dmaengine: make slave address physical)'
> > > clarifies that DMA slave address provided by clients is the physical
> > > address. This puts the task of mapping the DMA slave address from a
> > > phys_addr_t to a dma_addr_t on the DMA engine.
> > > 
> > > Without an IOMMU this is easy since the phys_addr_t and dma_addr_t are
> > > the same and no special care is needed. However if you have a IOMMU you
> > > need to map the DMA slave phys_addr_t to a dma_addr_t using something
> > > like this.
> > > 
> > > This series is based on top of v4.8-rc1. And I'm hoping to be able to collect a
> > > Ack from Russell King on patch 4/6 that adds the ARM specific part and then be
> > > able to take the whole series through the dmaengine tree. If this is not the
> > > best route I'm more then happy to do it another way.
> > > 
> > > It's tested on a Koelsch with CONFIG_IPMMU_VMSA and by enabling the
> > > ipmmu_ds node in r8a7791.dtsi. I verified operation by interacting with
> > > /dev/mmcblk1, i2c and the serial console which are devices behind the
> > > iommu.
> > 
> > As I said in last one, the dmaengine parts look fine to me. But to go thru
> > dmaengine tree I would need ACK on non dmaengine patches.
> 
> I havent heard back from this one and I am inclined to merge this one now.
> If anyone has any objects, please speak up now...

I'm just curios, do you plan to merge this series with Arnds Ack? If not 
is there anything I can do to help move the series in the right 
direction?

> 
> Also ACKs welcome...
> 

-- 
Regards,
Niklas Söderlund



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