From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Santosh Shilimkar Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] of: setup dma parameters using dma-ranges and dma-coherent Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 11:13:37 -0400 Message-ID: <535535A1.4020501@ti.com> References: <1397917972-6293-1-git-send-email-santosh.shilimkar@ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Rob Herring Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Russell King , Arnd Bergmann , Olof Johansson , Grant Likely , Rob Herring , Catalin Marinas , Linus Walleij , Grygorii Strashko List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Hi Rob, On Monday 21 April 2014 10:37 AM, Rob Herring wrote: > On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Santosh Shilimkar > wrote: >> Here is an updated version of [2] based on discussion. Series introduces >> support for setting up dma parameters based on device tree properties >> like 'dma-ranges' and 'dma-coherent' and also update to ARM 32 bit port. >> Earlier version of the same series is here [1]. >> >> The 'dma-ranges' helps to take care of few DMAable system memory restrictions >> by use of dma_pfn_offset which we maintain now per device. Arch code then >> uses it for dma address translations for such cases. We update the >> dma_pfn_offset accordingly during DT the device creation process.The >> 'dma-coherent' property is used to setup arch's coherent dma_ops. >> >> After some off-list discussion with RMK and Arnd, I have now dropped the >> controversial dma_mask setup code from the series which actually isn't blocking >> me as such. Considering rest of the parts of the series are already aligned, >> am hoping to get this version merged for 3.16 merge window. > > Can you briefly describe what the h/w looks like in terms of addresses > for the problem you are trying to solve? Something like: Cpu view of > RAM is X to Y address, X corresponds to DMA address Z. Max DMA address > is ? > Let me try with say 8 GB RAM example CPU view of memory : 0x0000 0008 0000 0000 to 0x0000 000a 0000 0000 >>From above memory range, first 2 GB of memory has an alias 32 bit view in the hardware. Hardware internally map the address issued within that first 2 GB to same memory. DMA view of first 2 GB [ 0x0000 0008 0000 0000 to 0x0000 0008 7fff ffff] is : 0x8000 0000 to 0xffff fffff. Regards, Santosh