02.02.2019 21:32, Sowjanya Komatineni пишет:
>>> This patch adds DMA support for Tegra I2C.
>>>
>>> Tegra I2C TX and RX FIFO depth is 8 words. PIO mode is used for
>>> transfer size of the max FIFO depth and DMA mode is used for transfer
>>> size higher than max FIFO depth to save CPU overhead.
>>>
>>> PIO mode needs full intervention of CPU to fill or empty FIFO's and
>>> also need to service multiple data requests interrupt for the same
>>> transaction. This adds delay between data bytes of the same transfer
>>> when CPU is fully loaded and some slave devices has internal timeout
>>> for no bus activity and stops transaction to avoid bus hang. DMA mode
>>> is helpful in such cases.
>>>
>>> DMA mode is also helpful for Large transfers during downloading or
>>> uploading FW over I2C to some external devices.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Sowjanya Komatineni <skomatin...@nvidia.com>
>>> ---
>>
>>
>>> +static int tegra_i2c_init_dma(struct tegra_i2c_dev *i2c_dev) {
>>> + struct dma_chan *dma_chan;
>>> + u32 *dma_buf;
>>> + dma_addr_t dma_phys;
>>> + int err = 0;
>>> +
>>> + if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TEGRA20_APB_DMA))
>>> + return -ENODEV;
>>
>> Another detail is that we need to keep older kernels working on T186+ after
>> its device-tree will get the "dmas" property, device-tree changes shall be
>> backwards-compatible with older kernels. Hence we need to check that
>> platform actually wants the APB DMA driver, otherwise T186+ will be failing
>> with -EPROBE_DEFER.
>
> Yes, that will be a separate patch later for adding DMA support for Tegra186
> and later chips once we check on GPCDMA upstream
>
>
Sure, and there is a requirement in upstream to keep older kernel versions
working with the later device-tree updates, as I pointed above. Please include
the ".has_apb_dma checking" that I'm suggesting into the next version.
