Provide a helper to set both the DMA and coherent DMA masks to the
same value - this avoids duplicated code in a number of drivers,
sometimes with buggy error handling, and also allows us identify
which drivers do things differently.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
Documentation/DMA-API.txt | 8 ++++++++
include/linux/dma-mapping.h | 14 ++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
index 14129f1..5e98303 100644
--- a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
+++ b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
@@ -101,14 +101,23 @@ style to do this even if your device holds the default setting,
because this shows that you did think about these issues wrt. your
device.
-The query is performed via a call to dma_set_mask():
+The query is performed via a call to dma_set_mask_and_coherent():
- int dma_set_mask(struct device *dev, u64 mask);
+ int dma_set_mask_and_coherent(struct device *dev, u64 mask);
-The query for consistent allocations is performed via a call to
-dma_set_coherent_mask():
+which will query the mask for both streaming and coherent APIs together.
+If you have some special requirements, then the following two separate
+queries can be used instead:
- int dma_set_coherent_mask(struct device *dev, u64 mask);
+ The query for streaming mappings is performed via a call to
+ dma_set_mask():
+
+ int dma_set_mask(struct device *dev, u64 mask);
+
+ The query for consistent allocations is performed via a call
+ to dma_set_coherent_mask():
+
+ int dma_set_coherent_mask(struct device *dev, u64 mask);
Here, dev is a pointer to the device struct of your device, and mask
is a bit mask describing which bits of an address your device
@@ -137,7 +146,7 @@ exactly why.
The standard 32-bit addressing device would do something like this:
- if (dma_set_mask(dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(32))) {
+ if (dma_set_mask_and_coherent(dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(32))) {
printk(KERN_WARNING
"mydev: No suitable DMA available.\n");
goto ignore_this_device;
@@ -171,22 +180,20 @@ If a card is capable of using 64-bit consistent allocations as well,
int using_dac, consistent_using_dac;
- if (!dma_set_mask(dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(64))) {
+ if (!dma_set_mask_and_coherent(dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(64))) {
using_dac = 1;
consistent_using_dac = 1;
- dma_set_coherent_mask(dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(64));
- } else if (!dma_set_mask(dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(32))) {
+ } else if (!dma_set_mask_and_coherent(dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(32))) {
using_dac = 0;
consistent_using_dac = 0;
- dma_set_coherent_mask(dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(32));
} else {
printk(KERN_WARNING
"mydev: No suitable DMA available.\n");
goto ignore_this_device;
}
-dma_set_coherent_mask() will always be able to set the same or a
-smaller mask as dma_set_mask(). However for the rare case that a
+The coherent coherent mask will always be able to set the same or a
+smaller mask as the streaming mask. However for the rare case that a
device driver only uses consistent allocations, one would have to
check the return value from dma_set_coherent_mask().
@@ -199,9 +206,9 @@ Finally, if your device can only drive the low 24-bits of
goto ignore_this_device;
}
-When dma_set_mask() is successful, and returns zero, the kernel saves
-away this mask you have provided. The kernel will use this
-information later when you make DMA mappings.
+When dma_set_mask() or dma_set_mask_and_coherent() is successful, and
+returns zero, the kernel saves away this mask you have provided. The
+kernel will use this information later when you make DMA mappings.
There is a case which we are aware of at this time, which is worth
mentioning in this documentation. If your device supports multiple
diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
index 78a6c56..e865279 100644
--- a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
+++ b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
@@ -142,6 +142,14 @@ internal API for use by the platform than an external API for use by
driver writers.
int
+dma_set_mask_and_coherent(struct device *dev, u64 mask)
+
+Checks to see if the mask is possible and updates the device
+streaming and coherent DMA mask parameters if it is.
+
+Returns: 0 if successful and a negative error if not.
+
+int
dma_set_mask(struct device *dev, u64 mask)
Checks to see if the mask is possible and updates the device
diff --git a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
index 3a8d0a2..ec951f9 100644
--- a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
+++ b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
@@ -97,6 +97,20 @@ static inline int dma_set_coherent_mask(struct device *dev, u64 mask)
}
#endif
+/*
+ * Set both the DMA mask and the coherent DMA mask to the same thing.
+ * Note that we don't check the return value from dma_set_coherent_mask()
+ * as the DMA API guarantees that the coherent DMA mask can be set to
+ * the same or smaller than the streaming DMA mask.
+ */
+static inline int dma_set_mask_and_coherent(struct device *dev, u64 mask)
+{
+ int rc = dma_set_mask(dev, mask);
+ if (rc == 0)
+ dma_set_coherent_mask(dev, mask);
+ return rc;
+}
+
extern u64 dma_get_required_mask(struct device *dev);
static inline unsigned int dma_get_max_seg_size(struct device *dev)
--
1.7.4.4
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