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[v4,11/11] dmaengine: dw: Initialize max_sg_nents capability

Message ID 20200528222401.26941-12-Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
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Series dmaengine: dw: Take Baikal-T1 SoC DW DMAC peculiarities into account | expand

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Serge Semin May 28, 2020, 10:24 p.m. UTC
Multi-block support provides a way to map the kernel-specific SG-table so
the DW DMA device would handle it as a whole instead of handling the
SG-list items or so called LLP block items one by one. So if true LLP
list isn't supported by the DW DMA engine, then soft-LLP mode will be
utilized to load and execute each LLP-block one by one. The soft-LLP mode
of the DMA transactions execution might not work well for some DMA
consumers like SPI due to its Tx and Rx buffers inter-dependency. Let's
initialize the max_sg_nents DMA channels capability based on the nollp
flag state. If it's true, no hardware accelerated LLP is available and
max_sg_nents should be set with 1, which means that the DMA engine
can handle only a single SG list entry at a time. If noLLP is set to
false, then hardware accelerated LLP is supported and the DMA engine
can handle infinite number of SG entries in a single DMA transaction.

Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru>
Cc: Alexey Malahov <Alexey.Malahov@baikalelectronics.ru>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org

---

Changelog v3:
- This is a new patch created as a result of the discussion with Vinud and
  Andy in the framework of DW DMA burst and LLP capabilities.

Changelog v4:
- Use explicit if-else statement when assigning the max_sg_nents field.
---
 drivers/dma/dw/core.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

Comments

Andy Shevchenko May 29, 2020, 10:27 a.m. UTC | #1
On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 01:24:01AM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> Multi-block support provides a way to map the kernel-specific SG-table so
> the DW DMA device would handle it as a whole instead of handling the
> SG-list items or so called LLP block items one by one. So if true LLP
> list isn't supported by the DW DMA engine, then soft-LLP mode will be
> utilized to load and execute each LLP-block one by one. The soft-LLP mode
> of the DMA transactions execution might not work well for some DMA
> consumers like SPI due to its Tx and Rx buffers inter-dependency. Let's
> initialize the max_sg_nents DMA channels capability based on the nollp
> flag state. If it's true, no hardware accelerated LLP is available and
> max_sg_nents should be set with 1, which means that the DMA engine
> can handle only a single SG list entry at a time. If noLLP is set to
> false, then hardware accelerated LLP is supported and the DMA engine
> can handle infinite number of SG entries in a single DMA transaction.

Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

> 
> Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru>
> Cc: Alexey Malahov <Alexey.Malahov@baikalelectronics.ru>
> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
> Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
> 
> ---
> 
> Changelog v3:
> - This is a new patch created as a result of the discussion with Vinud and
>   Andy in the framework of DW DMA burst and LLP capabilities.
> 
> Changelog v4:
> - Use explicit if-else statement when assigning the max_sg_nents field.
> ---
>  drivers/dma/dw/core.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/dw/core.c b/drivers/dma/dw/core.c
> index 60ef779fc5e0..b76eee75fde8 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/dw/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/dw/core.c
> @@ -1059,6 +1059,18 @@ static void dwc_caps(struct dma_chan *chan, struct dma_slave_caps *caps)
>  	struct dw_dma_chan *dwc = to_dw_dma_chan(chan);
>  
>  	caps->max_burst = dwc->max_burst;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * It might be crucial for some devices to have the hardware
> +	 * accelerated multi-block transfers supported, aka LLPs in DW DMAC
> +	 * notation. So if LLPs are supported then max_sg_nents is set to
> +	 * zero which means unlimited number of SG entries can be handled in a
> +	 * single DMA transaction, otherwise it's just one SG entry.
> +	 */
> +	if (dwc->nollp)
> +		caps->max_sg_nents = 1;
> +	else
> +		caps->max_sg_nents = 0;
>  }
>  
>  int do_dma_probe(struct dw_dma_chip *chip)
> -- 
> 2.26.2
>
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diff --git a/drivers/dma/dw/core.c b/drivers/dma/dw/core.c
index 60ef779fc5e0..b76eee75fde8 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/dw/core.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/dw/core.c
@@ -1059,6 +1059,18 @@  static void dwc_caps(struct dma_chan *chan, struct dma_slave_caps *caps)
 	struct dw_dma_chan *dwc = to_dw_dma_chan(chan);
 
 	caps->max_burst = dwc->max_burst;
+
+	/*
+	 * It might be crucial for some devices to have the hardware
+	 * accelerated multi-block transfers supported, aka LLPs in DW DMAC
+	 * notation. So if LLPs are supported then max_sg_nents is set to
+	 * zero which means unlimited number of SG entries can be handled in a
+	 * single DMA transaction, otherwise it's just one SG entry.
+	 */
+	if (dwc->nollp)
+		caps->max_sg_nents = 1;
+	else
+		caps->max_sg_nents = 0;
 }
 
 int do_dma_probe(struct dw_dma_chip *chip)