[PATCH] mxs/dma: Enlarge the CCW descriptor area to 4 pages

[PATCH] mxs/dma: Enlarge the CCW descriptor area to 4 pages

[Marek Vasut]

In case of a large SPI flash, the amount of DMA descriptors
available to the DMA driver is not large enough anymore. For
example 8MB SPI flash now needs 129 descriptors to be transfered
in one long read. There are currently 53 descriptors available in
one PAGE_SIZE-big block. Enlarge the allocated descriptor area to
four PAGE_SIZE blocks to fulfill such requirements.

Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <djbw@fb.com>
Cc: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>
Cc: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
---
 drivers/dma/mxs-dma.c |   14 ++++++++------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/mxs-dma.c b/drivers/dma/mxs-dma.c
index 7f41b25..e269325 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/mxs-dma.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/mxs-dma.c
@@ -101,7 +101,8 @@ struct mxs_dma_ccw {
 	u32		pio_words[MXS_PIO_WORDS];
 };
 
-#define NUM_CCW	(int)(PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(struct mxs_dma_ccw))
+#define CCW_BLOCK_SIZE	(4 * PAGE_SIZE)
+#define NUM_CCW	(int)(CCW_BLOCK_SIZE / sizeof(struct mxs_dma_ccw))
 
 struct mxs_dma_chan {
 	struct mxs_dma_engine		*mxs_dma;
@@ -354,14 +355,15 @@ static int mxs_dma_alloc_chan_resources(struct dma_chan *chan)
 
 	mxs_chan->chan_irq = data->chan_irq;
 
-	mxs_chan->ccw = dma_alloc_coherent(mxs_dma->dma_device.dev, PAGE_SIZE,
-				&mxs_chan->ccw_phys, GFP_KERNEL);
+	mxs_chan->ccw = dma_alloc_coherent(mxs_dma->dma_device.dev,
+				CCW_BLOCK_SIZE, &mxs_chan->ccw_phys,
+				GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!mxs_chan->ccw) {
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
 		goto err_alloc;
 	}
 
-	memset(mxs_chan->ccw, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
+	memset(mxs_chan->ccw, 0, CCW_BLOCK_SIZE);
 
 	if (mxs_chan->chan_irq != NO_IRQ) {
 		ret = request_irq(mxs_chan->chan_irq, mxs_dma_int_handler,
@@ -387,7 +389,7 @@ static int mxs_dma_alloc_chan_resources(struct dma_chan *chan)
 err_clk:
 	free_irq(mxs_chan->chan_irq, mxs_dma);
 err_irq:
-	dma_free_coherent(mxs_dma->dma_device.dev, PAGE_SIZE,
+	dma_free_coherent(mxs_dma->dma_device.dev, CCW_BLOCK_SIZE,
 			mxs_chan->ccw, mxs_chan->ccw_phys);
 err_alloc:
 	return ret;
@@ -402,7 +404,7 @@ static void mxs_dma_free_chan_resources(struct dma_chan *chan)
 
 	free_irq(mxs_chan->chan_irq, mxs_dma);
 
-	dma_free_coherent(mxs_dma->dma_device.dev, PAGE_SIZE,
+	dma_free_coherent(mxs_dma->dma_device.dev, CCW_BLOCK_SIZE,
 			mxs_chan->ccw, mxs_chan->ccw_phys);
 
 	clk_disable_unprepare(mxs_dma->clk);
-- 
1.7.10.4

[PATCH] mxs/dma: Enlarge the CCW descriptor area to 4 pages

[Shawn Guo]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 06:04:25AM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> In case of a large SPI flash, the amount of DMA descriptors
> available to the DMA driver is not large enough anymore. For
> example 8MB SPI flash now needs 129 descriptors to be transfered
> in one long read. There are currently 53 descriptors available in
> one PAGE_SIZE-big block. Enlarge the allocated descriptor area to
> four PAGE_SIZE blocks to fulfill such requirements.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
> Cc: Dan Williams <djbw@fb.com>
> Cc: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>
> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>

Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>

Vinod (copied) is the primary maintainer and collecting dma patches now.

[PATCH] mxs/dma: Enlarge the CCW descriptor area to 4 pages

[Marek Vasut]

Dear Shawn Guo,

> On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 06:04:25AM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > In case of a large SPI flash, the amount of DMA descriptors
> > available to the DMA driver is not large enough anymore. For
> > example 8MB SPI flash now needs 129 descriptors to be transfered
> > in one long read. There are currently 53 descriptors available in
> > one PAGE_SIZE-big block. Enlarge the allocated descriptor area to
> > four PAGE_SIZE blocks to fulfill such requirements.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
> > Cc: Dan Williams <djbw@fb.com>
> > Cc: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>
> > Cc: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
> 
> Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
> 
> Vinod (copied) is the primary maintainer and collecting dma patches now.

Understood.

Let me ask about another thing. If there'll eventually be some device that'd 
need even larger transfer (say ... hundreds of megs) we'd end up with trouble 
again.

One way to fix this is to recycle descriptors that were already used during the 
transfer, but can we really do it fast enough, so the DMA would do it's job at 
one end of the descriptor chain and we'd be building the other?

The other (easier) way is to let the device that claims the particular DMA 
channel allocate as much descriptors as it might ever need, which I think is 
wrong.

What do you think ?

Best regards,
Marek Vasut

[PATCH] mxs/dma: Enlarge the CCW descriptor area to 4 pages

[Shawn Guo]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 03:46:39AM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> Let me ask about another thing. If there'll eventually be some device that'd 
> need even larger transfer (say ... hundreds of megs) we'd end up with trouble 
> again.
> 
> One way to fix this is to recycle descriptors that were already used during the 
> transfer, but can we really do it fast enough, so the DMA would do it's job at 
> one end of the descriptor chain and we'd be building the other?
> 
It looks like a solution, but I'm not sure if it works either.

Regards,
Shawn

> The other (easier) way is to let the device that claims the particular DMA 
> channel allocate as much descriptors as it might ever need, which I think is 
> wrong.
> 
> What do you think ?
> 
> Best regards,
> Marek Vasut

[PATCH] mxs/dma: Enlarge the CCW descriptor area to 4 pages

[Marek Vasut]

Dear Shawn Guo,

> On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 03:46:39AM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > Let me ask about another thing. If there'll eventually be some device
> > that'd need even larger transfer (say ... hundreds of megs) we'd end up
> > with trouble again.
> > 
> > One way to fix this is to recycle descriptors that were already used
> > during the transfer, but can we really do it fast enough, so the DMA
> > would do it's job at one end of the descriptor chain and we'd be
> > building the other?
> 
> It looks like a solution, but I'm not sure if it works either.

Besides ... if the system is under some heavier load, this might crash too.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut

[PATCH] mxs/dma: Enlarge the CCW descriptor area to 4 pages

[Vinod Koul]

On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 03:46 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> Dear Shawn Guo,
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 06:04:25AM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > In case of a large SPI flash, the amount of DMA descriptors
> > > available to the DMA driver is not large enough anymore. For
> > > example 8MB SPI flash now needs 129 descriptors to be transfered
> > > in one long read. There are currently 53 descriptors available in
> > > one PAGE_SIZE-big block. Enlarge the allocated descriptor area to
> > > four PAGE_SIZE blocks to fulfill such requirements.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
> > > Cc: Dan Williams <djbw@fb.com>
> > > Cc: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>
> > > Cc: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
> > 
> > Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
> > 
> > Vinod (copied) is the primary maintainer and collecting dma patches now.
> 
> Understood.
> 
> Let me ask about another thing. If there'll eventually be some device that'd 
> need even larger transfer (say ... hundreds of megs) we'd end up with trouble 
> again.
> 
> One way to fix this is to recycle descriptors that were already used during the 
> transfer, but can we really do it fast enough, so the DMA would do it's job at 
> one end of the descriptor chain and we'd be building the other?
See the comment in dma_ctrl_flags:
* @DMA_CTRL_ACK - if clear, the descriptor cannot be reused until the client
*  acknowledges receipt, i.e. has has a chance to establish any dependency
*  chains
Setting this would mean that driver can reuse the descriptor once the
transaction has completed.

> 
> The other (easier) way is to let the device that claims the particular DMA 
> channel allocate as much descriptors as it might ever need, which I think is 
> wrong.
Correct.
> 
> What do you think ?
> 
> Best regards,
> Marek Vasut
> 
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> linux-arm-kernel mailing list
> linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel

[PATCH] mxs/dma: Enlarge the CCW descriptor area to 4 pages

[Vinod Koul]

On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 06:04 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> In case of a large SPI flash, the amount of DMA descriptors
> available to the DMA driver is not large enough anymore. For
> example 8MB SPI flash now needs 129 descriptors to be transfered
> in one long read. There are currently 53 descriptors available in
> one PAGE_SIZE-big block. Enlarge the allocated descriptor area to
> four PAGE_SIZE blocks to fulfill such requirements.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
> Cc: Dan Williams <djbw@fb.com>
> Cc: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>
> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Applied thanks
> ---
>  drivers/dma/mxs-dma.c |   14 ++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/mxs-dma.c b/drivers/dma/mxs-dma.c
> index 7f41b25..e269325 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/mxs-dma.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/mxs-dma.c
> @@ -101,7 +101,8 @@ struct mxs_dma_ccw {
>  	u32		pio_words[MXS_PIO_WORDS];
>  };
>  
> -#define NUM_CCW	(int)(PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(struct mxs_dma_ccw))
> +#define CCW_BLOCK_SIZE	(4 * PAGE_SIZE)
> +#define NUM_CCW	(int)(CCW_BLOCK_SIZE / sizeof(struct mxs_dma_ccw))
>  
>  struct mxs_dma_chan {
>  	struct mxs_dma_engine		*mxs_dma;
> @@ -354,14 +355,15 @@ static int mxs_dma_alloc_chan_resources(struct dma_chan *chan)
>  
>  	mxs_chan->chan_irq = data->chan_irq;
>  
> -	mxs_chan->ccw = dma_alloc_coherent(mxs_dma->dma_device.dev, PAGE_SIZE,
> -				&mxs_chan->ccw_phys, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	mxs_chan->ccw = dma_alloc_coherent(mxs_dma->dma_device.dev,
> +				CCW_BLOCK_SIZE, &mxs_chan->ccw_phys,
> +				GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!mxs_chan->ccw) {
>  		ret = -ENOMEM;
>  		goto err_alloc;
>  	}
>  
> -	memset(mxs_chan->ccw, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
> +	memset(mxs_chan->ccw, 0, CCW_BLOCK_SIZE);
>  
>  	if (mxs_chan->chan_irq != NO_IRQ) {
>  		ret = request_irq(mxs_chan->chan_irq, mxs_dma_int_handler,
> @@ -387,7 +389,7 @@ static int mxs_dma_alloc_chan_resources(struct dma_chan *chan)
>  err_clk:
>  	free_irq(mxs_chan->chan_irq, mxs_dma);
>  err_irq:
> -	dma_free_coherent(mxs_dma->dma_device.dev, PAGE_SIZE,
> +	dma_free_coherent(mxs_dma->dma_device.dev, CCW_BLOCK_SIZE,
>  			mxs_chan->ccw, mxs_chan->ccw_phys);
>  err_alloc:
>  	return ret;
> @@ -402,7 +404,7 @@ static void mxs_dma_free_chan_resources(struct dma_chan *chan)
>  
>  	free_irq(mxs_chan->chan_irq, mxs_dma);
>  
> -	dma_free_coherent(mxs_dma->dma_device.dev, PAGE_SIZE,
> +	dma_free_coherent(mxs_dma->dma_device.dev, CCW_BLOCK_SIZE,
>  			mxs_chan->ccw, mxs_chan->ccw_phys);
>  
>  	clk_disable_unprepare(mxs_dma->clk);

[PATCH] mxs/dma: Enlarge the CCW descriptor area to 4 pages

[Marek Vasut]

Dear Vinod Koul,

> On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 03:46 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > Dear Shawn Guo,
> > 
> > > On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 06:04:25AM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > > In case of a large SPI flash, the amount of DMA descriptors
> > > > available to the DMA driver is not large enough anymore. For
> > > > example 8MB SPI flash now needs 129 descriptors to be transfered
> > > > in one long read. There are currently 53 descriptors available in
> > > > one PAGE_SIZE-big block. Enlarge the allocated descriptor area to
> > > > four PAGE_SIZE blocks to fulfill such requirements.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
> > > > Cc: Dan Williams <djbw@fb.com>
> > > > Cc: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>
> > > > Cc: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
> > > 
> > > Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
> > > 
> > > Vinod (copied) is the primary maintainer and collecting dma patches
> > > now.
> > 
> > Understood.
> > 
> > Let me ask about another thing. If there'll eventually be some device
> > that'd need even larger transfer (say ... hundreds of megs) we'd end up
> > with trouble again.
> > 
> > One way to fix this is to recycle descriptors that were already used
> > during the transfer, but can we really do it fast enough, so the DMA
> > would do it's job at one end of the descriptor chain and we'd be
> > building the other?
> 
> See the comment in dma_ctrl_flags:
> * @DMA_CTRL_ACK - if clear, the descriptor cannot be reused until the
> client *  acknowledges receipt, i.e. has has a chance to establish any
> dependency *  chains
> Setting this would mean that driver can reuse the descriptor once the
> transaction has completed.

Sure, but then building the DMA chain on-the-fly might be a little bit too 
crazy. Still, I think we're safe with using 4 pages for now, it's more than 
plenty.

> > The other (easier) way is to let the device that claims the particular
> > DMA channel allocate as much descriptors as it might ever need, which I
> > think is wrong.
> 
> Correct.
> 
> > What do you think ?
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Marek Vasut


Best regards,
Marek Vasut

[PATCH] mxs/dma: Enlarge the CCW descriptor area to 4 pages

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 08:36:15AM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 03:46 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > One way to fix this is to recycle descriptors that were already used during the 
> > transfer, but can we really do it fast enough, so the DMA would do it's job at 
> > one end of the descriptor chain and we'd be building the other?
> See the comment in dma_ctrl_flags:
> * @DMA_CTRL_ACK - if clear, the descriptor cannot be reused until the client
> *  acknowledges receipt, i.e. has has a chance to establish any dependency
> *  chains
> Setting this would mean that driver can reuse the descriptor once the
> transaction has completed.

Actually, that has little meaning for slave DMA descriptors (other than
it should already be set for consistency with the async_tx stuff, which
has the above mentioned depenedency chains.)

Once completed, descriptors can be reused irrespective of the above flag.

[PATCH] mxs/dma: Enlarge the CCW descriptor area to 4 pages

[Vinod Koul]

On Fri, 2012-09-14 at 09:30 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 08:36:15AM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 03:46 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > One way to fix this is to recycle descriptors that were already used during the 
> > > transfer, but can we really do it fast enough, so the DMA would do it's job at 
> > > one end of the descriptor chain and we'd be building the other?
> > See the comment in dma_ctrl_flags:
> > * @DMA_CTRL_ACK - if clear, the descriptor cannot be reused until the client
> > *  acknowledges receipt, i.e. has has a chance to establish any dependency
> > *  chains
> > Setting this would mean that driver can reuse the descriptor once the
> > transaction has completed.
> 
> Actually, that has little meaning for slave DMA descriptors (other than
> it should already be set for consistency with the async_tx stuff, which
> has the above mentioned depenedency chains.)
> 
> Once completed, descriptors can be reused irrespective of the above flag.
Yes that is the reason no one in slave world uses it and we consider the
descriptor can be reused once transaction is complete.
FWIW I see some of the salve drivers do consider this flag!!


-- 
~Vinod