From: santosh.shilimkar@ti•com (Santosh Shilimkar)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/7] of: setup dma parameters using dma-ranges and dma-coherent
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 09:35:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53551E9D.9080107@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140419182528.414b9b2e@skate>
On Saturday 19 April 2014 12:25 PM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Santosh Shilimkar,
>
> On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 10:32:45 -0400, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
>> Here is an updated version of [2] based on discussion. Series introduces
>> support for setting up dma parameters based on device tree properties
>> like 'dma-ranges' and 'dma-coherent' and also update to ARM 32 bit port.
>> Earlier version of the same series is here [1].
>>
>> The 'dma-ranges' helps to take care of few DMAable system memory restrictions
>> by use of dma_pfn_offset which we maintain now per device. Arch code then
>> uses it for dma address translations for such cases. We update the
>> dma_pfn_offset accordingly during DT the device creation process.The
>> 'dma-coherent' property is used to setup arch's coherent dma_ops.
>>
>> After some off-list discussion with RMK and Arnd, I have now dropped the
>> controversial dma_mask setup code from the series which actually isn't blocking
>> me as such. Considering rest of the parts of the series are already aligned,
>> am hoping to get this version merged for 3.16 merge window.
>>
>> We agreed in last discussion that drivers have the ultimate
>> responsibility to setup the correct dma mask but then we need to have some
>> means to see if bus can support what driver has requested for a case where
>> driver request for bigger mask than what bus supports. I can follow up on
>> the mask topic if we have broken drivers.
>
> I am not sure whether there is an intersection or not, but I wanted to
> mention that the mvebu platform (in mach-mvebu) supports hardware I/O
> coherency, which makes it a coherent DMA platform. However, we are not
> able to use arm_coherent_dma_ops for this platform, because when a
> transfer is being made DMA_FROM_DEVICE, at the end of the transfer, we
> need to perform an I/O barrier to wait for the snooping unit to
> complete its coherency work. So we're coherent, but not with
> arm_coherent_dma_ops: we have our own dma operation implementation (see
> arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c).
>
I have seen that.
> However, it seems that your patch series, at least in PATCH 6/7 makes
> the assumption that for all DMA coherent platforms,
> arm_coherent_dma_ops is going to be OK.
>
No it doesn't. The infrastructure is for all the common cases which can
just use arm generic dma_ops.
> Also, I haven't followed all the discussions, but what is the intended
> usage of of_dma_is_coherent() and set_arch_dma_coherent_ops() (device
> drivers? platform code?).
>
The intention is for sub arch's like ARM, ARM64, powerPC etc can set
the dma_ops based on the device tree property. Today the ARM coherent
machines are doing that in machine code and we want to move that
to more generic code.
> In mach-mvebu, what we do is that we register a bus notifier on the
> platform bus, so that we can set our custom DMA operations for all
> platform devices in the system. Should this be done in a different way
> after your series?
>
Nope. Since you have a very custom SOC specific case, you can continue
what you are doing.
Regards,
Santosh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-21 13:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-19 14:32 [PATCH v2 0/7] of: setup dma parameters using dma-ranges and dma-coherent Santosh Shilimkar
2014-04-19 14:32 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] device: introduce per device dma_pfn_offset Santosh Shilimkar
2014-04-19 14:32 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] of: introduce of_dma_get_range() helper Santosh Shilimkar
2014-04-21 15:29 ` Rob Herring
2014-04-22 14:56 ` Grygorii Strashko
2014-04-22 4:09 ` Joel Fernandes
2014-04-19 14:32 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] of: introduce of_dma_is_coherent() helper Santosh Shilimkar
2014-04-19 14:32 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] of: configure the platform device dma parameters Santosh Shilimkar
2014-04-21 14:58 ` Rob Herring
2014-04-22 15:09 ` Grygorii Strashko
2014-04-22 14:44 ` Rob Herring
2014-04-22 15:44 ` Grygorii Strashko
2014-04-19 14:32 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] ARM: dma: Use dma_pfn_offset for dma address translation Santosh Shilimkar
2014-04-19 19:43 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-04-21 13:38 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2014-04-19 14:32 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] ARM: dma: implement set_arch_dma_coherent_ops() Santosh Shilimkar
2014-04-19 14:32 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] ARM: mm: use phys_addr_t in __dma_page_[cpu_to_dev/dev_to_cpu] Santosh Shilimkar
2014-04-21 13:39 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2014-04-19 16:25 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] of: setup dma parameters using dma-ranges and dma-coherent Thomas Petazzoni
2014-04-21 13:35 ` Santosh Shilimkar [this message]
2014-04-21 18:19 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-04-21 19:17 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2014-04-22 14:54 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-04-22 15:02 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-04-22 15:15 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2014-04-22 15:25 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-04-22 15:30 ` Rob Herring
2014-04-22 16:01 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-04-21 14:37 ` Rob Herring
2014-04-21 15:13 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2014-04-21 15:35 ` Rob Herring
2014-04-21 15:36 ` Santosh Shilimkar
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