[PATCH 3/3] dma/ti: convert PSIL to be buildable as module

Kevin Hilman khilman at baylibre.com
Mon Sep 26 11:50:46 PDT 2022


Péter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Kevin,
>
> On 9/26/22 21:18, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>> map symbols need EXPORT_SYMBOL and files need MODULE_LICENSE.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman at baylibre.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/dma/ti/Kconfig          | 3 ++-
>>  drivers/dma/ti/k3-psil-am62.c   | 4 ++++
>>  drivers/dma/ti/k3-psil-am64.c   | 4 ++++
>>  drivers/dma/ti/k3-psil-am654.c  | 4 ++++
>>  drivers/dma/ti/k3-psil-j7200.c  | 4 ++++
>>  drivers/dma/ti/k3-psil-j721e.c  | 4 ++++
>>  drivers/dma/ti/k3-psil-j721s2.c | 4 ++++
>>  drivers/dma/ti/k3-psil.c        | 2 ++
>>  8 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/dma/ti/Kconfig b/drivers/dma/ti/Kconfig
>> index f196be3b222f..2adc2cca10e9 100644
>> --- a/drivers/dma/ti/Kconfig
>> +++ b/drivers/dma/ti/Kconfig
>> @@ -56,7 +56,8 @@ config TI_K3_UDMA_GLUE_LAYER
>>  	  If unsure, say N.
>>  
>>  config TI_K3_PSIL
>> -	bool
>> +       tristate
>> +       default TI_K3_UDMA
>>  
>>  config TI_DMA_CROSSBAR
>>  	bool
>> diff --git a/drivers/dma/ti/k3-psil-am62.c b/drivers/dma/ti/k3-psil-am62.c
>> index 2b6fd6e37c61..7c4ca85f68b1 100644
>> --- a/drivers/dma/ti/k3-psil-am62.c
>> +++ b/drivers/dma/ti/k3-psil-am62.c
>> @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
>>   */
>>  
>>  #include <linux/kernel.h>
>> +#include <linux/module.h>
>>  
>>  #include "k3-psil-priv.h"
>>  
>> @@ -184,3 +185,6 @@ struct psil_ep_map am62_ep_map = {
>>  	.dst = am62_dst_ep_map,
>>  	.dst_count = ARRAY_SIZE(am62_dst_ep_map),
>>  };
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(am62_ep_map);
>
> Wouldn't it be better to build one module (k3-psil.ko) and link all the
> platform libs into that?
> They are unconditionally built in all cases anyways and makes the lsmod
> under control.
> And no need to export these maps at all is a plus.

I guess that's one option, but seems to be to be the wrong direction for
a modular kernel.  To me, it seems like the next step would be to make
it so only the SoC specific module is loaded instead of always loading
them all.

Kevin



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