DMA from memory to local bus

DMA from memory to local bus

[Hommel, Thomas (GE EntSol, Intelligent Platforms)]

Hi all,
I'm currently developing a driver and want to make use of the DMA
offload engine. Data has to be transferred from memory to a device on
the local bus and vice versa.
At a first look, the function dma_async_memcpy_buf_to_buf() seemed to be
suitable, but it does not translate addresses correctly. Both addresses
are treated as if they were in memory.
In my configuration, the buffer is located in memory, but the device's
I/O space is mapped into vmalloc space via ioremap(). How can I access
the I/O space corectly from the DMA controller?

Thanks for your help
Thomas

DMA from memory to local bus

[Hommel, Thomas (GE EntSol, Intelligent Platforms)]

Hi all,
I'm currently developing a driver and want to make use of the DMA
offload engine. Data has to be transferred from memory to a device on
the local bus and vice versa.
At a first look, the function dma_async_memcpy_buf_to_buf() seemed to be
suitable, but it does not translate addresses correctly. Both addresses
are treated as if they were in memory.
In my configuration, the buffer is located in memory, but the device's
I/O space is mapped into vmalloc space via ioremap(). How can I access
the I/O space corectly from the DMA controller? I also checked the
return of virt_to_phys() and this does not deliver the correct physical
address.
The board is based on MPC8641D and I'm using the on-chip DMA engine.

Thanks for your help
Thomas

Re: DMA from memory to local bus

[Robert Hancock]

Hommel, Thomas (GE EntSol, Intelligent Platforms) wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm currently developing a driver and want to make use of the DMA
> offload engine. Data has to be transferred from memory to a device on
> the local bus and vice versa.
> At a first look, the function dma_async_memcpy_buf_to_buf() seemed to be
> suitable, but it does not translate addresses correctly. Both addresses
> are treated as if they were in memory.

That would be the normal use of these things, I believe.. normally when 
copying to/from a device the device does it itself with bus master DMA.

> In my configuration, the buffer is located in memory, but the device's
> I/O space is mapped into vmalloc space via ioremap(). How can I access
> the I/O space corectly from the DMA controller?
> 
> Thanks for your help
> Thomas

Re: DMA from memory to local bus

[Ira Snyder]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 03:04:04PM +0100, Hommel, Thomas (GE EntSol, Intelligent Platforms) wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> I'm currently developing a driver and want to make use of the DMA
> offload engine. Data has to be transferred from memory to a device on
> the local bus and vice versa.
> At a first look, the function dma_async_memcpy_buf_to_buf() seemed to be
> suitable, but it does not translate addresses correctly. Both addresses
> are treated as if they were in memory.
> In my configuration, the buffer is located in memory, but the device's
> I/O space is mapped into vmalloc space via ioremap(). How can I access
> the I/O space corectly from the DMA controller? I also checked the
> return of virt_to_phys() and this does not deliver the correct physical
> address.
> The board is based on MPC8641D and I'm using the on-chip DMA engine.
> 

Check out my PCINet driver, posted here previously. It does something
similar.

It uses the PowerPC DMA controller to transfer all of the data around.
You probably need to use dma_map_single() to get the physical address of
your memory to give it to the DMA controller.

Ira