On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 04:37:46PM +0300, Eugeniy Paltsev wrote:
> In the current implementation dma_get_slave_caps is used to check
> state of descriptor_reuse option. But dma_get_slave_caps includes
> check if the channel supports slave transactions.
> So DMA_CTRL_REUSE flag can be set (even for MEM-TO-MEM tranfers)
> only if channel supports slave transactions.
>
> Now we can use DMA_CTRL_REUSE flag for all channel types.
> Also it allows to test reusing mechanism with simply mem-to-mem dma
> test.
We do not want to allow that actually. Slave is always treated as a special
case, so resue was allowed.
With memcpy the assumptions are different and clients can do reuse.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev <Eugeniy.Paltsev at synopsys.com>
> ---
> include/linux/dmaengine.h | 6 +-----
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/dmaengine.h b/include/linux/dmaengine.h
> index 5336808..92cf8b0 100644
> --- a/include/linux/dmaengine.h
> +++ b/include/linux/dmaengine.h
> @@ -1376,11 +1376,7 @@ static inline int dma_get_slave_caps(struct dma_chan *chan,
>
> static inline int dmaengine_desc_set_reuse(struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *tx)
> {
> - struct dma_slave_caps caps;
> -
> - dma_get_slave_caps(tx->chan, &caps);
> -
> - if (caps.descriptor_reuse) {
> + if (tx->chan->device->descriptor_reuse) {
> tx->flags |= DMA_CTRL_REUSE;
> return 0;
> } else {
> --
> 2.9.3
>
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