Hi Vinod,
Le mercredi 12 avril 2023 à 22:53 +0530, Vinod Koul a écrit :
> On 03-04-23, 17:47, Paul Cercueil wrote:
> > This function can be used to initiate a scatter-gather DMA transfer
> > where the DMA addresses and lengths are located inside arrays.
> >
> > The major difference with dmaengine_prep_slave_sg() is that it
> > supports
> > specifying the lengths of each DMA transfer; as trying to override
> > the
> > length of the transfer with dmaengine_prep_slave_sg() is a very
> > tedious
> > process. The introduction of a new API function is also justified
> > by the
> > fact that scatterlists are on their way out.
>
> Do we need a new API for this? why not use
> device_prep_interleaved_dma?
I admit that I discarded the interleaved DMA without trying it, because
reading the doc, e.g. the one for "struct data_chunk", It looked like
it was not usable for when the DMA addresses are scattered in memory;
it assumes that the following DMA addresses will always come after the
previous one.
Cheers,
-Paul
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > ---
> > v3: New patch
> > ---
> > include/linux/dmaengine.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/dmaengine.h b/include/linux/dmaengine.h
> > index c3656e590213..62efa28c009a 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/dmaengine.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/dmaengine.h
> > @@ -912,6 +912,11 @@ struct dma_device {
> > struct dma_async_tx_descriptor
> > *(*device_prep_dma_interrupt)(
> > struct dma_chan *chan, unsigned long flags);
> >
> > + struct dma_async_tx_descriptor
> > *(*device_prep_slave_dma_array)(
> > + struct dma_chan *chan, dma_addr_t *addrs,
> > + size_t *lengths, size_t nb,
> > + enum dma_transfer_direction direction,
> > + unsigned long flags);
> > struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *(*device_prep_slave_sg)(
> > struct dma_chan *chan, struct scatterlist *sgl,
> > unsigned int sg_len, enum dma_transfer_direction
> > direction,
> > @@ -974,6 +979,17 @@ static inline struct dma_async_tx_descriptor
> > *dmaengine_prep_slave_single(
> > dir, flags,
> > NULL);
> > }
> >
> > +static inline struct dma_async_tx_descriptor
> > *dmaengine_prep_slave_dma_array(
> > + struct dma_chan *chan, dma_addr_t *addrs, size_t *lengths,
> > + size_t nb, enum dma_transfer_direction dir, unsigned long
> > flags)
> > +{
> > + if (!chan || !chan->device || !chan->device-
> > >device_prep_slave_dma_array)
> > + return NULL;
> > +
> > + return chan->device->device_prep_slave_dma_array(chan,
> > addrs, lengths,
> > + nb, dir,
> > flags);
> > +}
> > +
> > static inline struct dma_async_tx_descriptor
> > *dmaengine_prep_slave_sg(
> > struct dma_chan *chan, struct scatterlist *sgl, unsigned
> > int sg_len,
> > enum dma_transfer_direction dir, unsigned long flags)
> > --
> > 2.39.2
>
