From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Niklas S??derlund" Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/9] dma-mapping: add dma_{map,unmap}_resource Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 17:05:23 +0100 Message-ID: <20160310160522.GB1111@bigcity.dyn.berto.se> References: <1457404974-1800-1-git-send-email-niklas.soderlund+renesas@ragnatech.se> <1457404974-1800-4-git-send-email-niklas.soderlund+renesas@ragnatech.se> <20160308073847.GA15520@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160308073847.GA15520@infradead.org> Sender: linux-renesas-soc-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: vinod.koul@intel.com, linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, robin.murphy@arm.com, laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com, geert+renesas@glider.be, linus.walleij@linaro.org, dan.j.williams@intel.com, arnd@arndb.de, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org List-Id: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org Hi Christoph, On 2016-03-07 23:38:47 -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Please add some documentation on where/how this should be used. It's > not a very obvious interface. Good idea, I have added the following to Documentation/DMA-API.txt and=20 folded it in to this patch. Do you feel it's adequate and do you know=20 anywhere else I should add documentation? diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt index 45ef3f2..248556a 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt @@ -277,14 +277,29 @@ and parameters are provided to do partial = page mapping, it is recommended that you never use these unless you really know what the cache width is. =20 +dma_addr_t +dma_map_resource(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t phys_addr, size_t siz= e, + enum dma_data_direction dir, struct dma_attrs *attrs) + +Maps a MMIO region so it can be accessed by the device and returns the +DMA address of the memory. API should only be used to map device MMIO, +mapping of RAM is not permitted. + +void +dma_unmap_resource(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t addr, size_t size, + enum dma_data_direction dir, struct dma_attrs *attrs= ) + +Unmaps the IOMMU region previously mapped. All the parameters passed i= n +must be identical to those passed in (and returned) by the mapping API= =2E + int dma_mapping_error(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr) =20 -In some circumstances dma_map_single() and dma_map_page() will fail to= create -a mapping. A driver can check for these errors by testing the returned -DMA address with dma_mapping_error(). A non-zero return value means th= e mapping -could not be created and the driver should take appropriate action (e.= g. -reduce current DMA mapping usage or delay and try again later). +In some circumstances dma_map_single(), dma_map_page() and dma_map_res= ource() +will fail to create a mapping. A driver can check for these errors by = testing +the returned DMA address with dma_mapping_error(). A non-zero return v= alue +means the mapping could not be created and the driver should take appr= opriate +action (e.g. reduce current DMA mapping usage or delay and try again = later). --=20 Regards, Niklas S=F6derlund