On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 18:00 +0530, Ravi Kumar V wrote:
> On 1/17/2012 7:15 PM, Vinod Koul wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 18:17 +0530, Ravi Kumar V wrote:
> > <sorry for delayed review, was on vacation and now traveling>
> >>
> >> As our ADM Scatter-gather hardware needs
> >> -32-bit command configuration parameter
> >> apart from
> >> -32-bit source address
> >> -32-bit destination address
> >> -16-bit length
> >>
> >> So,we have added new parameter in struct scatterlist to support xfer
> >> descriptor
> >> specific private data, and for supporting ADM Box mode DMA we added
> >> new
> >> API and data structure.
> > what do you mean by "ADM Box mode"?
> >
>
> ADM Box mode is a interleaved type of DMA where data from rows of equal
> length and equal distance(bytes) between each other are transferred to
> similar pattern of rows.
> Each row length and distance between each row in destination pattern may
> not be equal to source pattern.
> Distance between beginning of any two rows are always greater than row
> length.
> Example:
> If 4 rows of 16 bytes each are arranged such that distance between
> beginning of any two rows are 32 bytes.
> Now they can be transferred using BOX mode to destination pattern
> arranged in 2 rows of 32 bytes each and distance between them can be any
> lets say 128 bytes.
>
> Source pattern:
> 4 data rows starts address 0th byte.
>
> 0-----16-bytes-data-----15
> 16 16 bytes void 31
> 32---------data---------47
> 48 void 63
> 64---------data---------79
> 80 void 95
> 96---------data--------111
>
> Transferred to destination
> Destination pattern:
> 2 rows
> 0----------32-bytes-data----------31
> 32 96 bytes void 127
> 128-------------data-------------159
>
Sounds like you should be using interleaved API
Please see this and read the patch history, which has nice details about
this
/**
* struct dma_interleaved_template - Template to convey DMAC the
transfer pattern
* and attributes.
* @src_start: Bus address of source for the first chunk.
* @dst_start: Bus address of destination for the first chunk.
* @dir: Specifies the type of Source and Destination.
* @src_inc: If the source address increments after reading from it.
* @dst_inc: If the destination address increments after writing to it.
* @src_sgl: If the 'icg' of sgl[] applies to Source (scattered read).
* Otherwise, source is read contiguously (icg ignored).
* Ignored if src_inc is false.
* @dst_sgl: If the 'icg' of sgl[] applies to Destination (scattered write).
* Otherwise, destination is filled contiguously (icg ignored).
* Ignored if dst_inc is false.
* @numf: Number of frames in this template.
* @frame_size: Number of chunks in a frame i.e, size of sgl[].
* @sgl: Array of {chunk,icg} pairs that make up a frame.
*/
struct dma_interleaved_template {
dma_addr_t src_start;
dma_addr_t dst_start;
enum dma_transfer_direction dir;
bool src_inc;
bool dst_inc;
bool src_sgl;
bool dst_sgl;
size_t numf;
size_t frame_size;
struct data_chunk sgl[0];
};
using the interleaved API:
struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *(*device_prep_interleaved_dma)(
struct dma_chan *chan, struct dma_interleaved_template *xt,
unsigned long flags);
--
~Vinod
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