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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/client.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/client.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..fbbb2831f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/client.rst @@ -0,0 +1,275 @@ +==================== +DMA Engine API Guide +==================== + +Vinod Koul <vinod dot koul at intel.com> + +.. note:: For DMA Engine usage in async_tx please see: + ``Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.txt`` + + +Below is a guide to device driver writers on how to use the Slave-DMA API of the +DMA Engine. This is applicable only for slave DMA usage only. + +DMA usage +========= + +The slave DMA usage consists of following steps: + +- Allocate a DMA slave channel + +- Set slave and controller specific parameters + +- Get a descriptor for transaction + +- Submit the transaction + +- Issue pending requests and wait for callback notification + +The details of these operations are: + +1. Allocate a DMA slave channel + + Channel allocation is slightly different in the slave DMA context, + client drivers typically need a channel from a particular DMA + controller only and even in some cases a specific channel is desired. + To request a channel dma_request_chan() API is used. + + Interface: + + .. code-block:: c + + struct dma_chan *dma_request_chan(struct device *dev, const char *name); + + Which will find and return the ``name`` DMA channel associated with the 'dev' + device. The association is done via DT, ACPI or board file based + dma_slave_map matching table. + + A channel allocated via this interface is exclusive to the caller, + until dma_release_channel() is called. + +2. Set slave and controller specific parameters + + Next step is always to pass some specific information to the DMA + driver. Most of the generic information which a slave DMA can use + is in struct dma_slave_config. This allows the clients to specify + DMA direction, DMA addresses, bus widths, DMA burst lengths etc + for the peripheral. + + If some DMA controllers have more parameters to be sent then they + should try to embed struct dma_slave_config in their controller + specific structure. That gives flexibility to client to pass more + parameters, if required. + + Interface: + + .. code-block:: c + + int dmaengine_slave_config(struct dma_chan *chan, + struct dma_slave_config *config) + + Please see the dma_slave_config structure definition in dmaengine.h + for a detailed explanation of the struct members. Please note + that the 'direction' member will be going away as it duplicates the + direction given in the prepare call. + +3. Get a descriptor for transaction + + For slave usage the various modes of slave transfers supported by the + DMA-engine are: + + - slave_sg: DMA a list of scatter gather buffers from/to a peripheral + + - dma_cyclic: Perform a cyclic DMA operation from/to a peripheral till the + operation is explicitly stopped. + + - interleaved_dma: This is common to Slave as well as M2M clients. For slave + address of devices' fifo could be already known to the driver. + Various types of operations could be expressed by setting + appropriate values to the 'dma_interleaved_template' members. + + A non-NULL return of this transfer API represents a "descriptor" for + the given transaction. + + Interface: + + .. code-block:: c + + struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *dmaengine_prep_slave_sg( + struct dma_chan *chan, struct scatterlist *sgl, + unsigned int sg_len, enum dma_data_direction direction, + unsigned long flags); + + struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *dmaengine_prep_dma_cyclic( + struct dma_chan *chan, dma_addr_t buf_addr, size_t buf_len, + size_t period_len, enum dma_data_direction direction); + + struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *dmaengine_prep_interleaved_dma( + struct dma_chan *chan, struct dma_interleaved_template *xt, + unsigned long flags); + + The peripheral driver is expected to have mapped the scatterlist for + the DMA operation prior to calling dmaengine_prep_slave_sg(), and must + keep the scatterlist mapped until the DMA operation has completed. + The scatterlist must be mapped using the DMA struct device. + If a mapping needs to be synchronized later, dma_sync_*_for_*() must be + called using the DMA struct device, too. + So, normal setup should look like this: + + .. code-block:: c + + nr_sg = dma_map_sg(chan->device->dev, sgl, sg_len); + if (nr_sg == 0) + /* error */ + + desc = dmaengine_prep_slave_sg(chan, sgl, nr_sg, direction, flags); + + Once a descriptor has been obtained, the callback information can be + added and the descriptor must then be submitted. Some DMA engine + drivers may hold a spinlock between a successful preparation and + submission so it is important that these two operations are closely + paired. + + .. note:: + + Although the async_tx API specifies that completion callback + routines cannot submit any new operations, this is not the + case for slave/cyclic DMA. + + For slave DMA, the subsequent transaction may not be available + for submission prior to callback function being invoked, so + slave DMA callbacks are permitted to prepare and submit a new + transaction. + + For cyclic DMA, a callback function may wish to terminate the + DMA via dmaengine_terminate_async(). + + Therefore, it is important that DMA engine drivers drop any + locks before calling the callback function which may cause a + deadlock. + + Note that callbacks will always be invoked from the DMA + engines tasklet, never from interrupt context. + +4. Submit the transaction + + Once the descriptor has been prepared and the callback information + added, it must be placed on the DMA engine drivers pending queue. + + Interface: + + .. code-block:: c + + dma_cookie_t dmaengine_submit(struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *desc) + + This returns a cookie can be used to check the progress of DMA engine + activity via other DMA engine calls not covered in this document. + + dmaengine_submit() will not start the DMA operation, it merely adds + it to the pending queue. For this, see step 5, dma_async_issue_pending. + +5. Issue pending DMA requests and wait for callback notification + + The transactions in the pending queue can be activated by calling the + issue_pending API. If channel is idle then the first transaction in + queue is started and subsequent ones queued up. + + On completion of each DMA operation, the next in queue is started and + a tasklet triggered. The tasklet will then call the client driver + completion callback routine for notification, if set. + + Interface: + + .. code-block:: c + + void dma_async_issue_pending(struct dma_chan *chan); + +Further APIs: +------------- + +1. Terminate APIs + + .. code-block:: c + + int dmaengine_terminate_sync(struct dma_chan *chan) + int dmaengine_terminate_async(struct dma_chan *chan) + int dmaengine_terminate_all(struct dma_chan *chan) /* DEPRECATED */ + + This causes all activity for the DMA channel to be stopped, and may + discard data in the DMA FIFO which hasn't been fully transferred. + No callback functions will be called for any incomplete transfers. + + Two variants of this function are available. + + dmaengine_terminate_async() might not wait until the DMA has been fully + stopped or until any running complete callbacks have finished. But it is + possible to call dmaengine_terminate_async() from atomic context or from + within a complete callback. dmaengine_synchronize() must be called before it + is safe to free the memory accessed by the DMA transfer or free resources + accessed from within the complete callback. + + dmaengine_terminate_sync() will wait for the transfer and any running + complete callbacks to finish before it returns. But the function must not be + called from atomic context or from within a complete callback. + + dmaengine_terminate_all() is deprecated and should not be used in new code. + +2. Pause API + + .. code-block:: c + + int dmaengine_pause(struct dma_chan *chan) + + This pauses activity on the DMA channel without data loss. + +3. Resume API + + .. code-block:: c + + int dmaengine_resume(struct dma_chan *chan) + + Resume a previously paused DMA channel. It is invalid to resume a + channel which is not currently paused. + +4. Check Txn complete + + .. code-block:: c + + enum dma_status dma_async_is_tx_complete(struct dma_chan *chan, + dma_cookie_t cookie, dma_cookie_t *last, dma_cookie_t *used) + + This can be used to check the status of the channel. Please see + the documentation in include/linux/dmaengine.h for a more complete + description of this API. + + This can be used in conjunction with dma_async_is_complete() and + the cookie returned from dmaengine_submit() to check for + completion of a specific DMA transaction. + + .. note:: + + Not all DMA engine drivers can return reliable information for + a running DMA channel. It is recommended that DMA engine users + pause or stop (via dmaengine_terminate_all()) the channel before + using this API. + +5. Synchronize termination API + + .. code-block:: c + + void dmaengine_synchronize(struct dma_chan *chan) + + Synchronize the termination of the DMA channel to the current context. + + This function should be used after dmaengine_terminate_async() to synchronize + the termination of the DMA channel to the current context. The function will + wait for the transfer and any running complete callbacks to finish before it + returns. + + If dmaengine_terminate_async() is used to stop the DMA channel this function + must be called before it is safe to free memory accessed by previously + submitted descriptors or to free any resources accessed within the complete + callback of previously submitted descriptors. + + The behavior of this function is undefined if dma_async_issue_pending() has + been called between dmaengine_terminate_async() and this function. diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/dmatest.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/dmatest.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7ce5e71c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/dmatest.rst @@ -0,0 +1,114 @@ +============== +DMA Test Guide +============== + +Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> + +This small document introduces how to test DMA drivers using dmatest module. + +.. note:: + The test suite works only on the channels that have at least one + capability of the following: DMA_MEMCPY (memory-to-memory), DMA_MEMSET + (const-to-memory or memory-to-memory, when emulated), DMA_XOR, DMA_PQ. + +Part 1 - How to build the test module +===================================== + +The menuconfig contains an option that could be found by following path: + + Device Drivers -> DMA Engine support -> DMA Test client + +In the configuration file the option called CONFIG_DMATEST. The dmatest could +be built as module or inside kernel. Let's consider those cases. + +Part 2 - When dmatest is built as a module +========================================== + +Example of usage:: + + % modprobe dmatest channel=dma0chan0 timeout=2000 iterations=1 run=1 + +...or:: + + % modprobe dmatest + % echo dma0chan0 > /sys/module/dmatest/parameters/channel + % echo 2000 > /sys/module/dmatest/parameters/timeout + % echo 1 > /sys/module/dmatest/parameters/iterations + % echo 1 > /sys/module/dmatest/parameters/run + +...or on the kernel command line:: + + dmatest.channel=dma0chan0 dmatest.timeout=2000 dmatest.iterations=1 dmatest.run=1 + +.. hint:: + available channel list could be extracted by running the following command:: + + % ls -1 /sys/class/dma/ + +Once started a message like "dmatest: Started 1 threads using dma0chan0" is +emitted. After that only test failure messages are reported until the test +stops. + +Note that running a new test will not stop any in progress test. + +The following command returns the state of the test. :: + + % cat /sys/module/dmatest/parameters/run + +To wait for test completion userpace can poll 'run' until it is false, or use +the wait parameter. Specifying 'wait=1' when loading the module causes module +initialization to pause until a test run has completed, while reading +/sys/module/dmatest/parameters/wait waits for any running test to complete +before returning. For example, the following scripts wait for 42 tests +to complete before exiting. Note that if 'iterations' is set to 'infinite' then +waiting is disabled. + +Example:: + + % modprobe dmatest run=1 iterations=42 wait=1 + % modprobe -r dmatest + +...or:: + + % modprobe dmatest run=1 iterations=42 + % cat /sys/module/dmatest/parameters/wait + % modprobe -r dmatest + +Part 3 - When built-in in the kernel +==================================== + +The module parameters that is supplied to the kernel command line will be used +for the first performed test. After user gets a control, the test could be +re-run with the same or different parameters. For the details see the above +section `Part 2 - When dmatest is built as a module`_. + +In both cases the module parameters are used as the actual values for the test +case. You always could check them at run-time by running :: + + % grep -H . /sys/module/dmatest/parameters/* + +Part 4 - Gathering the test results +=================================== + +Test results are printed to the kernel log buffer with the format:: + + "dmatest: result <channel>: <test id>: '<error msg>' with src_off=<val> dst_off=<val> len=<val> (<err code>)" + +Example of output:: + + % dmesg | tail -n 1 + dmatest: result dma0chan0-copy0: #1: No errors with src_off=0x7bf dst_off=0x8ad len=0x3fea (0) + +The message format is unified across the different types of errors. A +number in the parentheses represents additional information, e.g. error +code, error counter, or status. A test thread also emits a summary line at +completion listing the number of tests executed, number that failed, and a +result code. + +Example:: + + % dmesg | tail -n 1 + dmatest: dma0chan0-copy0: summary 1 test, 0 failures 1000 iops 100000 KB/s (0) + +The details of a data miscompare error are also emitted, but do not follow the +above format. diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/index.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3026fa975 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +======================= +DMAEngine documentation +======================= + +DMAEngine documentation provides documents for various aspects of DMAEngine +framework. + +DMAEngine documentation +----------------------- + +This book helps with DMAengine internal APIs and guide for DMAEngine device +driver writers. + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + provider + +DMAEngine client documentation +------------------------------ + +This book is a guide to device driver writers on how to use the Slave-DMA +API of the DMAEngine. This is applicable only for slave DMA usage only. + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + client + +DMA Test documentation +---------------------- + +This book introduces how to test DMA drivers using dmatest module. + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + dmatest + +PXA DMA documentation +---------------------- + +This book adds some notes about PXA DMA + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + pxa_dma + +.. only:: subproject + + Indices + ======= + + * :ref:`genindex` diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/provider.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/provider.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..dfc4486b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/provider.rst @@ -0,0 +1,504 @@ +================================== +DMAengine controller documentation +================================== + +Hardware Introduction +===================== + +Most of the Slave DMA controllers have the same general principles of +operations. + +They have a given number of channels to use for the DMA transfers, and +a given number of requests lines. + +Requests and channels are pretty much orthogonal. Channels can be used +to serve several to any requests. To simplify, channels are the +entities that will be doing the copy, and requests what endpoints are +involved. + +The request lines actually correspond to physical lines going from the +DMA-eligible devices to the controller itself. Whenever the device +will want to start a transfer, it will assert a DMA request (DRQ) by +asserting that request line. + +A very simple DMA controller would only take into account a single +parameter: the transfer size. At each clock cycle, it would transfer a +byte of data from one buffer to another, until the transfer size has +been reached. + +That wouldn't work well in the real world, since slave devices might +require a specific number of bits to be transferred in a single +cycle. For example, we may want to transfer as much data as the +physical bus allows to maximize performances when doing a simple +memory copy operation, but our audio device could have a narrower FIFO +that requires data to be written exactly 16 or 24 bits at a time. This +is why most if not all of the DMA controllers can adjust this, using a +parameter called the transfer width. + +Moreover, some DMA controllers, whenever the RAM is used as a source +or destination, can group the reads or writes in memory into a buffer, +so instead of having a lot of small memory accesses, which is not +really efficient, you'll get several bigger transfers. This is done +using a parameter called the burst size, that defines how many single +reads/writes it's allowed to do without the controller splitting the +transfer into smaller sub-transfers. + +Our theoretical DMA controller would then only be able to do transfers +that involve a single contiguous block of data. However, some of the +transfers we usually have are not, and want to copy data from +non-contiguous buffers to a contiguous buffer, which is called +scatter-gather. + +DMAEngine, at least for mem2dev transfers, require support for +scatter-gather. So we're left with two cases here: either we have a +quite simple DMA controller that doesn't support it, and we'll have to +implement it in software, or we have a more advanced DMA controller, +that implements in hardware scatter-gather. + +The latter are usually programmed using a collection of chunks to +transfer, and whenever the transfer is started, the controller will go +over that collection, doing whatever we programmed there. + +This collection is usually either a table or a linked list. You will +then push either the address of the table and its number of elements, +or the first item of the list to one channel of the DMA controller, +and whenever a DRQ will be asserted, it will go through the collection +to know where to fetch the data from. + +Either way, the format of this collection is completely dependent on +your hardware. Each DMA controller will require a different structure, +but all of them will require, for every chunk, at least the source and +destination addresses, whether it should increment these addresses or +not and the three parameters we saw earlier: the burst size, the +transfer width and the transfer size. + +The one last thing is that usually, slave devices won't issue DRQ by +default, and you have to enable this in your slave device driver first +whenever you're willing to use DMA. + +These were just the general memory-to-memory (also called mem2mem) or +memory-to-device (mem2dev) kind of transfers. Most devices often +support other kind of transfers or memory operations that dmaengine +support and will be detailed later in this document. + +DMA Support in Linux +==================== + +Historically, DMA controller drivers have been implemented using the +async TX API, to offload operations such as memory copy, XOR, +cryptography, etc., basically any memory to memory operation. + +Over time, the need for memory to device transfers arose, and +dmaengine was extended. Nowadays, the async TX API is written as a +layer on top of dmaengine, and acts as a client. Still, dmaengine +accommodates that API in some cases, and made some design choices to +ensure that it stayed compatible. + +For more information on the Async TX API, please look the relevant +documentation file in Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.txt. + +DMAEngine APIs +============== + +``struct dma_device`` Initialization +------------------------------------ + +Just like any other kernel framework, the whole DMAEngine registration +relies on the driver filling a structure and registering against the +framework. In our case, that structure is dma_device. + +The first thing you need to do in your driver is to allocate this +structure. Any of the usual memory allocators will do, but you'll also +need to initialize a few fields in there: + +- ``channels``: should be initialized as a list using the + INIT_LIST_HEAD macro for example + +- ``src_addr_widths``: + should contain a bitmask of the supported source transfer width + +- ``dst_addr_widths``: + should contain a bitmask of the supported destination transfer width + +- ``directions``: + should contain a bitmask of the supported slave directions + (i.e. excluding mem2mem transfers) + +- ``residue_granularity``: + granularity of the transfer residue reported to dma_set_residue. + This can be either: + + - Descriptor: + your device doesn't support any kind of residue + reporting. The framework will only know that a particular + transaction descriptor is done. + + - Segment: + your device is able to report which chunks have been transferred + + - Burst: + your device is able to report which burst have been transferred + +- ``dev``: should hold the pointer to the ``struct device`` associated + to your current driver instance. + +Supported transaction types +--------------------------- + +The next thing you need is to set which transaction types your device +(and driver) supports. + +Our ``dma_device structure`` has a field called cap_mask that holds the +various types of transaction supported, and you need to modify this +mask using the dma_cap_set function, with various flags depending on +transaction types you support as an argument. + +All those capabilities are defined in the ``dma_transaction_type enum``, +in ``include/linux/dmaengine.h`` + +Currently, the types available are: + +- DMA_MEMCPY + + - The device is able to do memory to memory copies + +- DMA_XOR + + - The device is able to perform XOR operations on memory areas + + - Used to accelerate XOR intensive tasks, such as RAID5 + +- DMA_XOR_VAL + + - The device is able to perform parity check using the XOR + algorithm against a memory buffer. + +- DMA_PQ + + - The device is able to perform RAID6 P+Q computations, P being a + simple XOR, and Q being a Reed-Solomon algorithm. + +- DMA_PQ_VAL + + - The device is able to perform parity check using RAID6 P+Q + algorithm against a memory buffer. + +- DMA_INTERRUPT + + - The device is able to trigger a dummy transfer that will + generate periodic interrupts + + - Used by the client drivers to register a callback that will be + called on a regular basis through the DMA controller interrupt + +- DMA_PRIVATE + + - The devices only supports slave transfers, and as such isn't + available for async transfers. + +- DMA_ASYNC_TX + + - Must not be set by the device, and will be set by the framework + if needed + + - TODO: What is it about? + +- DMA_SLAVE + + - The device can handle device to memory transfers, including + scatter-gather transfers. + + - While in the mem2mem case we were having two distinct types to + deal with a single chunk to copy or a collection of them, here, + we just have a single transaction type that is supposed to + handle both. + + - If you want to transfer a single contiguous memory buffer, + simply build a scatter list with only one item. + +- DMA_CYCLIC + + - The device can handle cyclic transfers. + + - A cyclic transfer is a transfer where the chunk collection will + loop over itself, with the last item pointing to the first. + + - It's usually used for audio transfers, where you want to operate + on a single ring buffer that you will fill with your audio data. + +- DMA_INTERLEAVE + + - The device supports interleaved transfer. + + - These transfers can transfer data from a non-contiguous buffer + to a non-contiguous buffer, opposed to DMA_SLAVE that can + transfer data from a non-contiguous data set to a continuous + destination buffer. + + - It's usually used for 2d content transfers, in which case you + want to transfer a portion of uncompressed data directly to the + display to print it + +These various types will also affect how the source and destination +addresses change over time. + +Addresses pointing to RAM are typically incremented (or decremented) +after each transfer. In case of a ring buffer, they may loop +(DMA_CYCLIC). Addresses pointing to a device's register (e.g. a FIFO) +are typically fixed. + +Device operations +----------------- + +Our dma_device structure also requires a few function pointers in +order to implement the actual logic, now that we described what +operations we were able to perform. + +The functions that we have to fill in there, and hence have to +implement, obviously depend on the transaction types you reported as +supported. + +- ``device_alloc_chan_resources`` + +- ``device_free_chan_resources`` + + - These functions will be called whenever a driver will call + ``dma_request_channel`` or ``dma_release_channel`` for the first/last + time on the channel associated to that driver. + + - They are in charge of allocating/freeing all the needed + resources in order for that channel to be useful for your driver. + + - These functions can sleep. + +- ``device_prep_dma_*`` + + - These functions are matching the capabilities you registered + previously. + + - These functions all take the buffer or the scatterlist relevant + for the transfer being prepared, and should create a hardware + descriptor or a list of hardware descriptors from it + + - These functions can be called from an interrupt context + + - Any allocation you might do should be using the GFP_NOWAIT + flag, in order not to potentially sleep, but without depleting + the emergency pool either. + + - Drivers should try to pre-allocate any memory they might need + during the transfer setup at probe time to avoid putting to + much pressure on the nowait allocator. + + - It should return a unique instance of the + ``dma_async_tx_descriptor structure``, that further represents this + particular transfer. + + - This structure can be initialized using the function + ``dma_async_tx_descriptor_init``. + + - You'll also need to set two fields in this structure: + + - flags: + TODO: Can it be modified by the driver itself, or + should it be always the flags passed in the arguments + + - tx_submit: A pointer to a function you have to implement, + that is supposed to push the current transaction descriptor to a + pending queue, waiting for issue_pending to be called. + + - In this structure the function pointer callback_result can be + initialized in order for the submitter to be notified that a + transaction has completed. In the earlier code the function pointer + callback has been used. However it does not provide any status to the + transaction and will be deprecated. The result structure defined as + ``dmaengine_result`` that is passed in to callback_result + has two fields: + + - result: This provides the transfer result defined by + ``dmaengine_tx_result``. Either success or some error condition. + + - residue: Provides the residue bytes of the transfer for those that + support residue. + +- ``device_issue_pending`` + + - Takes the first transaction descriptor in the pending queue, + and starts the transfer. Whenever that transfer is done, it + should move to the next transaction in the list. + + - This function can be called in an interrupt context + +- ``device_tx_status`` + + - Should report the bytes left to go over on the given channel + + - Should only care about the transaction descriptor passed as + argument, not the currently active one on a given channel + + - The tx_state argument might be NULL + + - Should use dma_set_residue to report it + + - In the case of a cyclic transfer, it should only take into + account the current period. + + - This function can be called in an interrupt context. + +- device_config + + - Reconfigures the channel with the configuration given as argument + + - This command should NOT perform synchronously, or on any + currently queued transfers, but only on subsequent ones + + - In this case, the function will receive a ``dma_slave_config`` + structure pointer as an argument, that will detail which + configuration to use. + + - Even though that structure contains a direction field, this + field is deprecated in favor of the direction argument given to + the prep_* functions + + - This call is mandatory for slave operations only. This should NOT be + set or expected to be set for memcpy operations. + If a driver support both, it should use this call for slave + operations only and not for memcpy ones. + +- device_pause + + - Pauses a transfer on the channel + + - This command should operate synchronously on the channel, + pausing right away the work of the given channel + +- device_resume + + - Resumes a transfer on the channel + + - This command should operate synchronously on the channel, + resuming right away the work of the given channel + +- device_terminate_all + + - Aborts all the pending and ongoing transfers on the channel + + - For aborted transfers the complete callback should not be called + + - Can be called from atomic context or from within a complete + callback of a descriptor. Must not sleep. Drivers must be able + to handle this correctly. + + - Termination may be asynchronous. The driver does not have to + wait until the currently active transfer has completely stopped. + See device_synchronize. + +- device_synchronize + + - Must synchronize the termination of a channel to the current + context. + + - Must make sure that memory for previously submitted + descriptors is no longer accessed by the DMA controller. + + - Must make sure that all complete callbacks for previously + submitted descriptors have finished running and none are + scheduled to run. + + - May sleep. + + +Misc notes +========== + +(stuff that should be documented, but don't really know +where to put them) + +``dma_run_dependencies`` + +- Should be called at the end of an async TX transfer, and can be + ignored in the slave transfers case. + +- Makes sure that dependent operations are run before marking it + as complete. + +dma_cookie_t + +- it's a DMA transaction ID that will increment over time. + +- Not really relevant any more since the introduction of ``virt-dma`` + that abstracts it away. + +DMA_CTRL_ACK + +- If clear, the descriptor cannot be reused by provider until the + client acknowledges receipt, i.e. has has a chance to establish any + dependency chains + +- This can be acked by invoking async_tx_ack() + +- If set, does not mean descriptor can be reused + +DMA_CTRL_REUSE + +- If set, the descriptor can be reused after being completed. It should + not be freed by provider if this flag is set. + +- The descriptor should be prepared for reuse by invoking + ``dmaengine_desc_set_reuse()`` which will set DMA_CTRL_REUSE. + +- ``dmaengine_desc_set_reuse()`` will succeed only when channel support + reusable descriptor as exhibited by capabilities + +- As a consequence, if a device driver wants to skip the + ``dma_map_sg()`` and ``dma_unmap_sg()`` in between 2 transfers, + because the DMA'd data wasn't used, it can resubmit the transfer right after + its completion. + +- Descriptor can be freed in few ways + + - Clearing DMA_CTRL_REUSE by invoking + ``dmaengine_desc_clear_reuse()`` and submitting for last txn + + - Explicitly invoking ``dmaengine_desc_free()``, this can succeed only + when DMA_CTRL_REUSE is already set + + - Terminating the channel + +- DMA_PREP_CMD + + - If set, the client driver tells DMA controller that passed data in DMA + API is command data. + + - Interpretation of command data is DMA controller specific. It can be + used for issuing commands to other peripherals/register reads/register + writes for which the descriptor should be in different format from + normal data descriptors. + +General Design Notes +==================== + +Most of the DMAEngine drivers you'll see are based on a similar design +that handles the end of transfer interrupts in the handler, but defer +most work to a tasklet, including the start of a new transfer whenever +the previous transfer ended. + +This is a rather inefficient design though, because the inter-transfer +latency will be not only the interrupt latency, but also the +scheduling latency of the tasklet, which will leave the channel idle +in between, which will slow down the global transfer rate. + +You should avoid this kind of practice, and instead of electing a new +transfer in your tasklet, move that part to the interrupt handler in +order to have a shorter idle window (that we can't really avoid +anyway). + +Glossary +======== + +- Burst: A number of consecutive read or write operations that + can be queued to buffers before being flushed to memory. + +- Chunk: A contiguous collection of bursts + +- Transfer: A collection of chunks (be it contiguous or not) diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/pxa_dma.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/pxa_dma.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..442ee691a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/pxa_dma.rst @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +============================== +PXA/MMP - DMA Slave controller +============================== + +Constraints +=========== + +a) Transfers hot queuing +A driver submitting a transfer and issuing it should be granted the transfer +is queued even on a running DMA channel. +This implies that the queuing doesn't wait for the previous transfer end, +and that the descriptor chaining is not only done in the irq/tasklet code +triggered by the end of the transfer. +A transfer which is submitted and issued on a phy doesn't wait for a phy to +stop and restart, but is submitted on a "running channel". The other +drivers, especially mmp_pdma waited for the phy to stop before relaunching +a new transfer. + +b) All transfers having asked for confirmation should be signaled +Any issued transfer with DMA_PREP_INTERRUPT should trigger a callback call. +This implies that even if an irq/tasklet is triggered by end of tx1, but +at the time of irq/dma tx2 is already finished, tx1->complete() and +tx2->complete() should be called. + +c) Channel running state +A driver should be able to query if a channel is running or not. For the +multimedia case, such as video capture, if a transfer is submitted and then +a check of the DMA channel reports a "stopped channel", the transfer should +not be issued until the next "start of frame interrupt", hence the need to +know if a channel is in running or stopped state. + +d) Bandwidth guarantee +The PXA architecture has 4 levels of DMAs priorities : high, normal, low. +The high priorities get twice as much bandwidth as the normal, which get twice +as much as the low priorities. +A driver should be able to request a priority, especially the real-time +ones such as pxa_camera with (big) throughputs. + +Design +====== +a) Virtual channels +Same concept as in sa11x0 driver, ie. a driver was assigned a "virtual +channel" linked to the requestor line, and the physical DMA channel is +assigned on the fly when the transfer is issued. + +b) Transfer anatomy for a scatter-gather transfer + +:: + + +------------+-----+---------------+----------------+-----------------+ + | desc-sg[0] | ... | desc-sg[last] | status updater | finisher/linker | + +------------+-----+---------------+----------------+-----------------+ + +This structure is pointed by dma->sg_cpu. +The descriptors are used as follows : + + - desc-sg[i]: i-th descriptor, transferring the i-th sg + element to the video buffer scatter gather + + - status updater + Transfers a single u32 to a well known dma coherent memory to leave + a trace that this transfer is done. The "well known" is unique per + physical channel, meaning that a read of this value will tell which + is the last finished transfer at that point in time. + + - finisher: has ddadr=DADDR_STOP, dcmd=ENDIRQEN + + - linker: has ddadr= desc-sg[0] of next transfer, dcmd=0 + +c) Transfers hot-chaining +Suppose the running chain is: + +:: + + Buffer 1 Buffer 2 + +---------+----+---+ +----+----+----+---+ + | d0 | .. | dN | l | | d0 | .. | dN | f | + +---------+----+-|-+ ^----+----+----+---+ + | | + +----+ + +After a call to dmaengine_submit(b3), the chain will look like: + +:: + + Buffer 1 Buffer 2 Buffer 3 + +---------+----+---+ +----+----+----+---+ +----+----+----+---+ + | d0 | .. | dN | l | | d0 | .. | dN | l | | d0 | .. | dN | f | + +---------+----+-|-+ ^----+----+----+-|-+ ^----+----+----+---+ + | | | | + +----+ +----+ + new_link + +If while new_link was created the DMA channel stopped, it is _not_ +restarted. Hot-chaining doesn't break the assumption that +dma_async_issue_pending() is to be used to ensure the transfer is actually started. + +One exception to this rule : + +- if Buffer1 and Buffer2 had all their addresses 8 bytes aligned + +- and if Buffer3 has at least one address not 4 bytes aligned + +- then hot-chaining cannot happen, as the channel must be stopped, the + "align bit" must be set, and the channel restarted As a consequence, + such a transfer tx_submit() will be queued on the submitted queue, and + this specific case if the DMA is already running in aligned mode. + +d) Transfers completion updater +Each time a transfer is completed on a channel, an interrupt might be +generated or not, up to the client's request. But in each case, the last +descriptor of a transfer, the "status updater", will write the latest +transfer being completed into the physical channel's completion mark. + +This will speed up residue calculation, for large transfers such as video +buffers which hold around 6k descriptors or more. This also allows without +any lock to find out what is the latest completed transfer in a running +DMA chain. + +e) Transfers completion, irq and tasklet +When a transfer flagged as "DMA_PREP_INTERRUPT" is finished, the dma irq +is raised. Upon this interrupt, a tasklet is scheduled for the physical +channel. + +The tasklet is responsible for : + +- reading the physical channel last updater mark + +- calling all the transfer callbacks of finished transfers, based on + that mark, and each transfer flags. + +If a transfer is completed while this handling is done, a dma irq will +be raised, and the tasklet will be scheduled once again, having a new +updater mark. + +f) Residue +Residue granularity will be descriptor based. The issued but not completed +transfers will be scanned for all of their descriptors against the +currently running descriptor. + +g) Most complicated case of driver's tx queues +The most tricky situation is when : + + - there are not "acked" transfers (tx0) + + - a driver submitted an aligned tx1, not chained + + - a driver submitted an aligned tx2 => tx2 is cold chained to tx1 + + - a driver issued tx1+tx2 => channel is running in aligned mode + + - a driver submitted an aligned tx3 => tx3 is hot-chained + + - a driver submitted an unaligned tx4 => tx4 is put in submitted queue, + not chained + + - a driver issued tx4 => tx4 is put in issued queue, not chained + + - a driver submitted an aligned tx5 => tx5 is put in submitted queue, not + chained + + - a driver submitted an aligned tx6 => tx6 is put in submitted queue, + cold chained to tx5 + + This translates into (after tx4 is issued) : + + - issued queue + + :: + + +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ + | tx1 | | tx2 | | tx3 | | tx4 | + +---|-+ ^---|-+ ^-----+ +-----+ + | | | | + +---+ +---+ + - submitted queue + +-----+ +-----+ + | tx5 | | tx6 | + +---|-+ ^-----+ + | | + +---+ + +- completed queue : empty + +- allocated queue : tx0 + +It should be noted that after tx3 is completed, the channel is stopped, and +restarted in "unaligned mode" to handle tx4. + +Author: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr> |