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From: grygorii.strashko@ti.com (Grygorii Strashko)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] ARM: keystone: Use dma-ranges for dma_pfn_offset configuration
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 18:05:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <530CBF64.3080407@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5443441.XzmmNp2M6v@wuerfel>

On 02/25/2014 04:37 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 February 2014 17:19:59 Grygorii Strashko wrote:
>> The Keystone can work in two modes:
>> - LPAE disabled: In this case Platform bus notifier will not be called at all
>> and DMA range == MEM range (32 bits mode)
>
> The hardware setting doesn't change here, just the available memory, right?

Yes. The accessible RAM will be 0x8000 0000 - 0xFFFF FFFF -
the same as DMA range. But coherent DMA will not be supported.

So, no DMA bus offset required and actions in Platform bus notifier.

>
>> - LPAE enabled: In this case, I'll update code to treat absence of "dam-ranges"
>> property as "no dma possible" and clean up DMA mask. Is it ok?
>> In this mode "dam-ranges" prop has to be defined always to enable DMA.
>
> Ok, sounds good.
>
>> Empty "dma-ranges" can't be treated as "no translation required" because it is used
>> to move one level up while traversing DT to find the valid "dma-ranges" prop.
>> Used to handle child devices like:
>>
>>   bus {
>>          dma-ranges = <...>;
>>
>>          Dev A {
>>                  dma-ranges;
>>
>>                  child_dev_A1 { }
>>                  child_dev_A2 { }
>>
>> This is standard behavior for "[dma-]ranges".
>
> That is what I meant: "no translation required at this level". You still
> have to go up to the root in order to know the full translation.
>

Regards,
-grygorii

      reply	other threads:[~2014-02-25 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-24 20:53 [PATCH 0/4] ARM: mm: Use dma-ranges for dma address translation Santosh Shilimkar
2014-02-24 20:53 ` [PATCH 1/4] ARM: mm: Introduce archdata.dma_pfn_offset Santosh Shilimkar
2014-02-24 20:53 ` [PATCH 2/4] ARM: mm: Remove unsed dma_to_virt() Santosh Shilimkar
2014-02-24 20:53 ` [PATCH 3/4] ARM: dts: keystone: Use dma-ranges property Santosh Shilimkar
2014-02-24 20:53 ` [PATCH 4/4] ARM: keystone: Use dma-ranges for dma_pfn_offset configuration Santosh Shilimkar
2014-02-24 21:11   ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-02-24 21:38     ` Santosh Shilimkar
2014-02-25  8:35       ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-02-25 14:14       ` Grygorii Strashko
2014-02-25 13:37         ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-02-25 15:19           ` Grygorii Strashko
2014-02-25 14:37             ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-02-25 16:05               ` Grygorii Strashko [this message]

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