History log of /linux-master/drivers/dma/dw/dw.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 8d2f59da 31-Jul-2020 Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru>

dmaengine: dw: Ignore burst setting for memory peripherals

According to the DW DMA controller Databook 2.18b (page 40 "3.5 Memory
Peripherals") memory peripherals don't have handshaking interface
connected to the controller, therefore they can never be a flow
controller. Since the CTLx.SRC_MSIZE and CTLx.DEST_MSIZE are properties
valid only for peripherals with a handshaking interface, we can freely
zero these fields out if the memory peripheral is selected to be the
source or the destination of the DMA transfers.

Note according to the databook, length of burst transfers to memory is
always equal to the number of data items available in a channel FIFO or
data items required to complete the block transfer, whichever is smaller;
length of burst transfers from memory is always equal to the space
available in a channel FIFO or number of data items required to complete
the block transfer, whichever is smaller.

Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200731200826.9292-5-Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru
Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>


# 6d9459d0 31-Jul-2020 Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru>

dmaengine: dw: Activate FIFO-mode for memory peripherals only

CFGx.FIFO_MODE field controls a DMA-controller "FIFO readiness" criterion.
In other words it determines when to start pushing data out of a DW
DMAC channel FIFO to a destination peripheral or from a source
peripheral to the DW DMAC channel FIFO. Currently FIFO-mode is set to one
for all DW DMAC channels. It means they are tuned to flush data out of
FIFO (to a memory peripheral or by accepting the burst transaction
requests) when FIFO is at least half-full (except at the end of the block
transfer, when FIFO-flush mode is activated) and are configured to get
data to the FIFO when it's at least half-empty.

Such configuration is a good choice when there is no slave device involved
in the DMA transfers. In that case the number of bursts per block is less
than when CFGx.FIFO_MODE = 0 and, hence, the bus utilization will improve.
But the latency of DMA transfers may increase when CFGx.FIFO_MODE = 1,
since DW DMAC will wait for the channel FIFO contents to be either
half-full or half-empty depending on having the destination or the source
transfers. Such latencies might be dangerous in case if the DMA transfers
are expected to be performed from/to a slave device. Since normally
peripheral devices keep data in internal FIFOs, any latency at some
critical moment may cause one being overflown and consequently losing
data. This especially concerns a case when either a peripheral device is
relatively fast or the DW DMAC engine is relatively slow with respect to
the incoming data pace.

In order to solve problems, which might be caused by the latencies
described above, let's enable the FIFO half-full/half-empty "FIFO
readiness" criterion only for DMA transfers with no slave device involved.
Thanks to the commit 99ba8b9b0d97 ("dmaengine: dw: Initialize channel
before each transfer") we can freely do that in the generic
dw_dma_initialize_chan() method.

Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200731200826.9292-3-Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru
Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>


# 934891b0 07-Jan-2019 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

dmaengine: dw: Don't pollute CTL_LO on iDMA 32-bit

Intel iDMA 32-bit doesn't have a concept of bus masters and thus
there is no need to setup any kind of masters in the CTL_LO register.

Moreover, the burst size for memory-to-memory transfer is not what is says,
we need to have a corrected list of possible sizes. Note, that
the size of 8 items, each of that up to 4 bytes, is chosen because of
maximum of 1/2 FIFO, which is 64 bytes on Intel Merrifield.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>


# 91f0ff88 07-Jan-2019 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

dmaengine: dw: Reset DRAIN bit when resume the channel

For Intel iDMA 32-bit the channel can be drained on a suspend.
We need to reset the bit on the resume to return a status quo.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>


# 69da8be9 07-Jan-2019 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

dmaengine: dw: Split DW and iDMA 32-bit operations

Here is a kinda big refactoring that should have been done
in the first place, when Intel iDMA 32-bit support appeared.

It splits operations which are different to Synopsys DesignWare and
Intel iDMA 32-bit controllers.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>