Subject: [PATCH v3 1/8] dma: sun4i: Add support for the DMA engine on sun[457]i SoCs

From: [email-masked] (Emilio López)
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 16:37:16 -0300

Hi,

El 05/08/14 a las 17:00, Maxime Ripard escibi?:
> Hi,
>
> Overall it looks very nice, thanks.
>
> On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 05:09:55PM -0300, Emilio L?pez wrote:
>> +static struct sun4i_dma_pchan *find_and_use_pchan(struct sun4i_dma_dev *priv,
>> +                                                 struct sun4i_dma_vchan *vchan)
>> +{
>> +       struct sun4i_dma_pchan *pchan = NULL, *pchans = priv->pchans;
>> +       unsigned long flags;
>> +       int i, max;
>> +
>> +       /*
>> +        * pchans 0-NDMA_NR_MAX_CHANNELS are normal, and
>> +        * NDMA_NR_MAX_CHANNELS+ are dedicated ones
>> +        */
>> +       if (vchan->is_dedicated) {
>> +               i = NDMA_NR_MAX_CHANNELS;
>> +               max = DMA_NR_MAX_CHANNELS;
>> +       } else {
>> +               i = 0;
>> +               max = NDMA_NR_MAX_CHANNELS;
>> +       }
>> +
>> +       spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->lock, flags);
>> +       for_each_clear_bit_from(i, &priv->pchans_used, max) {
>> +               pchan = &pchans[i];
>> +               pchan->vchan = vchan;
>> +               set_bit(i, priv->pchans_used);
>> +               break;
>
> ffz instead?

I think it'd look way more messy with ffz, as it only works on unsigned 
longs and it's undefined on the all-1s case.

We could have something like this, but I don't see much point in what's 
basically expanding the macro

	spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->lock, flags);
	i = find_next_zero_bit(&priv->pchans_used, max, i);
	if (i < max) {
		pchan = &pchans[i];
		pchan->vchan = vchan;
		set_bit(i, priv->pchans_used);
	}
	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags);

>> +static int execute_vchan_pending(struct sun4i_dma_dev *priv,
>> +				 struct sun4i_dma_vchan *vchan)
>> +{
>> +	struct sun4i_dma_promise *promise = NULL;
>> +	struct sun4i_dma_contract *contract = NULL;
>> +	struct sun4i_dma_pchan *pchan;
>> +	struct virt_dma_desc *vd;
>> +	int ret;
>> +
>> +	lockdep_assert_held(&vchan->vc.lock);
>
> So this has to be called with a lock taken?
>
> You should mention that somewhere.
> Usually, such fonctions are also prefixed by "__"

Ok, I added a comment and the prefix now.

>> +/**
>> + * Generate a promise, to be used in a normal DMA contract.
>> + *
>> + * A NDMA promise contains all the information required to program the
>> + * normal part of the DMA Engine and get data copied. A non-executed
>> + * promise will live in the demands list on a contract. Once it has been
>> + * completed, it will be moved to the completed demands list for later freeing.
>> + * All linked promises will be freed when the corresponding contract is freed
>> + */
>> +static struct sun4i_dma_promise *
>> +generate_ndma_promise(struct dma_chan *chan, dma_addr_t src, dma_addr_t dest,
>> +		      size_t len, struct dma_slave_config *sconfig)
>> +{
>> +	struct sun4i_dma_promise *promise;
>> +	int ret;
>> +
>> +	promise = kzalloc(sizeof(*promise), GFP_NOWAIT);
>> +	if (!promise)
>> +		return NULL;
>> +
>> +	promise->src = src;
>> +	promise->dst = dest;
>> +	promise->len = len;
>> +	promise->cfg = NDMA_CFG_LOADING | NDMA_CFG_BYTE_COUNT_MODE_REMAIN;
>> +
>> +	/* Use sensible default values if client is using undefined ones */
>> +	if (sconfig->src_addr_width == DMA_SLAVE_BUSWIDTH_UNDEFINED)
>> +		sconfig->src_addr_width = sconfig->dst_addr_width;
>> +	if (sconfig->dst_addr_width == DMA_SLAVE_BUSWIDTH_UNDEFINED)
>> +		sconfig->dst_addr_width = sconfig->src_addr_width;
>> +	if (sconfig->src_maxburst == 0)
>> +		sconfig->src_maxburst = sconfig->dst_maxburst;
>> +	if (sconfig->dst_maxburst == 0)
>> +		sconfig->dst_maxburst = sconfig->src_maxburst;
>
> I'm not sure what's the default policy on that. Vinod?
>
>> +static irqreturn_t sun4i_dma_submit_work(int irq, void *dev_id)
>> +{
>> +	struct sun4i_dma_dev *priv = dev_id;
>> +	struct sun4i_dma_vchan *vchan;
>> +	unsigned long flags;
>> +	int i;
>> +
>> +	for (i = 0; i < DMA_NR_MAX_VCHANS; i++) {
>> +		vchan = &priv->vchans[i];
>> +		spin_lock_irqsave(&vchan->vc.lock, flags);
>> +		execute_vchan_pending(priv, vchan);
>> +		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&vchan->vc.lock, flags);
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	return IRQ_HANDLED;
>> +}
>
> Judging from Russell's comment here, that should be in the interrupt
> handler
>
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-August/277737.html

Wouldn't that make the interrupt handler quite big time wise? I was 
under the impression they should remain as short as possible. LDD3 says 
"The programmer should be careful to write a routine that executes in a 
minimum amount of time (...)" on chapter 10

I did try something mid-way a bit ago; I added code to see if we could 
issue the next DMA operation from the current set, but it was just extra 
complexity for a noop in performance, as they're sets of one on all 
cases I tried.

It's worth noting that the very latency sensitive DMA users we will have 
(ie, audio) are already completely managed in the IRQ handler thanks to 
the less flexible concept of cyclic transfers.

Cheers,

Emilio