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From: boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com (Boris Brezillon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 4/7] scatterlist: add sg_alloc_table_from_buf() helper
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 20:18:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160330201831.38e1d6bd@bbrezillon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160330165143.GI2350@sirena.org.uk>

On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 09:51:43 -0700
Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 05:39:51PM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> > sg_alloc_table_from_buf() provides an easy solution to create an sg_table
> > from a virtual address pointer. This function takes care of dealing with
> > vmallocated buffers, buffer alignment, or DMA engine limitations (maximum
> > DMA transfer size).
> 
> This seems nice.  Should we also have a further helper on top of this
> which will get constraints from a dmaengine, it seems like it'd be a
> common need?

Yep, we could create a wrapper extracting dma_slave caps info,
converting it to sg_constraints and calling sg_alloc_table_from_buf().
But let's try to get this function accepted first, and I'll send another
patch providing this wrapper.

BTW, do you see other things that should be added in sg_constraints?

-- 
Boris Brezillon, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-30 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-30 15:39 [PATCH v2 0/7] mtd: nand: sunxi: add support for DMA operations Boris Brezillon
2016-03-30 15:39 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] mtd: nand: sunxi: move some ECC related operations to their own functions Boris Brezillon
2016-03-30 15:39 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] mtd: nand: sunxi: make OOB retrieval optional Boris Brezillon
2016-03-30 15:39 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] mtd: nand: sunxi: make cur_off parameter optional in extra oob helpers Boris Brezillon
2016-03-30 15:39 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] scatterlist: add sg_alloc_table_from_buf() helper Boris Brezillon
2016-03-30 16:51   ` Mark Brown
2016-03-30 18:18     ` Boris Brezillon [this message]
2016-03-30 18:34       ` Mark Brown
2016-04-05  7:11       ` Dave Gordon
2016-03-31  4:56   ` [v2,4/7] " Vignesh R
2016-03-31  7:26     ` Boris Brezillon
2016-03-30 15:39 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] mtd: provide helper to prepare buffers for DMA operations Boris Brezillon
2016-03-30 15:39 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] mtd: nand: sunxi: add support for DMA assisted operations Boris Brezillon
2016-03-30 15:39 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] mtd: nand: sunxi: update DT bindings Boris Brezillon

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