On Fri, 2016-08-12 at 17:08 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Fri, 2016-08-12 at 13:36 +0000, Eugeniy Paltsev wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2016-08-12 at 13:59 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Fri, 2016-08-12 at 08:03 +0000, Eugeniy Paltsev wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > "nollp" parameter defines if DW DMAC channel supports multi > > > > block > > > > transfer or not. > > > > > > > > It is calculated in runtime, but differently depending on on > > > > availability of pdata. If pdata is absent "nollp" is calculated > > > > using > > > > autoconfig hardware registers. Otherwise "nollp" is calculated > > > > using > > > > the next code construction: > > > > channel_writel(dwc, LLP, DWC_LLP_LOC(0xffffffff)); > > > > dwc->nollp = DWC_LLP_LOC(channel_readl(dwc, LLP)) == 0; > > > > channel_writel(dwc, LLP, 0); > > > > > > > > I realized that these methods give different results. > > > > For example on ARC AXS101 SDP in case of using autoconfig > > > > "nollp" > > > > was > > > > calculated as "true" (and DMAC works fine), > > > > otherwise "nollp" was calculated as "false" (and DMAC doesn't > > > > work). > > > Can you show out what the value you read back? > > channel_readl(dwc, LLP) return 0xfffffffc > Nice. > > Oh, forgot to ask, what are the DW_PARAMS and DWC_PARAMS[x] are on > the same hardware? DW_PARAMS: 0x38280b0c DWC_PARAMS[0]: 0x4926d300 DWC_PARAMS[1]: 0x4926d300 DWC_PARAMS[2]: 0x4926d300 DWC_PARAMS[3]: 0x4926d300 > I assume we are talking about that one which has no hardware LLP > support. Yep. > > > > > > > > > > > > > So I'm wondering how the code in question really works? > > > > From DW AHB DMAC databook I wasn't able to find anything > > > > relevant > > > > to > > > > this tricky implementation. Could you please clarify a little > > > > but > > > > what > > > > happens here? > > > "Table 4-1: > > > ... > > > Hardcode Channel x LLP register to 0? > > > ... > > > Description: If set to 1, hardcodes channel x Linked List Pointer > > > register to 0 (LLPx.LOC == 0), ..." > So, any comment on this one? I suppose you may have an access to some > internal Synopsys documentation which might shed a light. Or maybe I > missed something else which should be considered. Looks like this code based on idea, what if DMA ip-core doesn't have LLP support it will not have LLP registers. It is not necessarily true. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Maybe we should add "nollp" field in pdata structure and > > > > receive > > > > it > > > > from pdata/device tree (like we use "is_private" or "is_memcpu" > > > > fields) > > > Yeah, perhaps we can remove that trick since we need this flag to > > > be > > > set > > > on Intel Quark which might have the same issue as your case [1]. > > > > > > [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-serial/msg22948.html > > > > > In which tree I can find this patch applied, so I may base my work > > on > > it? > The series is under review. I'm preparing v10, so, I would like to > re- > make this patch with regarding to your input. > > For now I would prefer just to remove the trick, but I still wonder > what > the circumstances are to bring it not working. > Please add this code to read "is_memcpy" and "is_nollp" property from device tree. ----------------------------->8------------------------------ diff --git a/drivers/dma/dw/platform.c b/drivers/dma/dw/platform.c index 5bda0eb..2712602 100644 --- a/drivers/dma/dw/platform.c +++ b/drivers/dma/dw/platform.c @@ -129,6 +129,12 @@ dw_dma_parse_dt(struct platform_device *pdev) if (of_property_read_bool(np, "is_private")) pdata->is_private = true; + if (of_property_read_bool(np, "is_memcpy")) + pdata->is_memcpy = true; + + if (of_property_read_bool(np, "is_nollp")) + pdata->is_nollp = true; + if (!of_property_read_u32(np, "chan_allocation_order", &tmp)) pdata->chan_allocation_order = (unsigned char)tmp; ----------------------------->8------------------------------ -- Paltsev Eugeniy��.n��������+%������w��{.n��������)�)��jg��������ݢj����G�������j:+v���w�m������w�������h�����٥