Re: [PATCH v4 1/8] dmaengine: of_dma: Support for DMA routers

[Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>]

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On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 11:24:58AM +0300, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> On 04/08/2015 06:42 PM, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> >> ---
> >>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/dma.txt | 28 +++++++++
> >>  drivers/dma/dmaengine.c                       |  7 +++
> >>  drivers/dma/of-dma.c                          | 86 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>  include/linux/dmaengine.h                     | 17 ++++++
> >>  include/linux/of_dma.h                        | 21 +++++++
> >>  5 files changed, 159 insertions(+)
> > 
> > Can that be moved to a header / C file of its own?
> > 
> > There's a lot of various code already in dmaengine.h and dmaengine.c,
> > it would be really great to avoid adding more random stuff in there.
> 
> This patch adds the core support for DMA signal routers. It adds
> fairly small amount of generic code to the core to achieve this. I
> don't think it would be better to create let's say of-dma-router.c
> and .h just for this and export functions from of-dma.c to be used
> outside of the file.

A lot of "a fairly small amount of generic code" has been added over
time, and we ended up in the current situation.

It's a bit sad if we just end up moving this just after it got merged,
especially if it doesn't have any kind of dependency on any of the
core function.

> >> +int of_dma_router_register(struct device_node *np,
> >> +			   void *(*of_dma_route_allocate)
> >> +			   (struct of_phandle_args *, struct of_dma *),
> >> +			   struct dma_router *dma_router)
> >> +{
> >> +	struct of_dma	*ofdma;
> >> +
> >> +	if (!np || !of_dma_route_allocate || !dma_router) {
> >> +		pr_err("%s: not enough information provided\n", __func__);
> >> +		return -EINVAL;
> >> +	}
> >> +
> >> +	ofdma = kzalloc(sizeof(*ofdma), GFP_KERNEL);
> >> +	if (!ofdma)
> >> +		return -ENOMEM;
> > 
> > Is that expected that you allocate through kzalloc, but never have a
> > matching free function implemented?
> 
> The free is via the of_dma_router_free() in case the router is removed
> runtime, which is unlikely to happen since it will cause all DMA request to fail.

Ok.

> >> diff --git a/include/linux/of_dma.h b/include/linux/of_dma.h
> >> index 56bc026c143f..734e449f87c1 100644
> >> --- a/include/linux/of_dma.h
> >> +++ b/include/linux/of_dma.h
> >> @@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ struct of_dma {
> >>  	struct device_node	*of_node;
> >>  	struct dma_chan		*(*of_dma_xlate)
> >>  				(struct of_phandle_args *, struct of_dma *);
> >> +	void			*(*of_dma_route_allocate)
> >> +				(struct of_phandle_args *, struct of_dma *);
> >> +	struct dma_router	*dma_router;
> > 
> > I don't really see why this is really tied to the device tree.
> 
> The signal router is not a DMA device, it is represented in the device tree
> and the code will do the needed translation, which is transparent for the DMA
> clients and also for the DMA controllers. Neither should know about the signal
> router.

Yeah, I got that part, and we do agree on that.

> Similar translation can be done for ACPI.

But this argument is exactly why it shouldn't be tied to the device
tree. We wouldn't like to re-do all this all over again for ACPI,
while your code seems to just handle that very well, wouldn't we?

> > Couldn't we use the device_alloc_chan_resources to do that?
> 
> Not really. The router itself is not a DMA controller. The routing
> need to be configured before the device_alloc_chan_resources can be
> called for the real DMA controller. The signal router (core part +
> the HW driver) need to prepare the route and do the translation so
> the filter function of the DMA driver can validate the translated
> request.

Ah, yes, hence why you need a custom xlate function. Got it, thanks!

Maxime

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