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Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:59:00 +0300
From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To: Jubin Mehta <jubin.mehta@...el.com>
Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Dan Williams <djbw@...com>,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>,
Jon Mason <jon.mason@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dmatest: masking tests for channel capabilities
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Jubin Mehta <jubin.mehta@...el.com> wrote:
> The current dmatest module tests all the hardware capabilities (MEMCPY, XOR
> and PQ) supported by a particular DMA channel and these tests are performed
> concurrently by default. This patch allows the user to enable or disable the
> test performed for any particular capability. The mask bits for enabling the
> tests are set using the debugfs.
This approach I like better.
Dan, Vinod, what is your opinion?
I have couple of comments below.
> +++ b/Documentation/dmatest.txt
> +Method to enable the capabilities:
> +
> +PATH = /sys/kernel/debug/dmatest/cap_mask
> +(DEFAULT) echo 0x07 > $PATH // Set Bits 0,1,2 for MEMCPY, XOR and PQ
> + echo 0x01 > $PATH // Set bit 0 to enable MEMCPY
> + echo 0x02 > $PATH // Set bit 1 to enable XOR
> + echo 0x04 > $PATH // Set bit 2 to enable PQ
What if we make examples followed by # and comments?
And move (DEFAULT) to the commentary.
> +++ b/drivers/dma/dmatest.c
> +/*
> + * Capability Mask Bits.The bits in the cap_mask denote the masking of
> + * the hardware capabilities of the dma channel.
> + *
> + * DMA_CAP_MEMCPY: Bit 0 for enabling DMA_MEMCPY capability
> + * DMA_CAP_XOR: Bit 1 for enabling DMA_XOR capabilit
> + * DMA_CAP_PQ: Bit 2 for enabling DMA_PQ capability
> + * DMA_CAP_ALL: Enable all the capabilities of the channel
> + */
> +#define DMA_CAP_MEMCPY (1 << 0)
> +#define DMA_CAP_XOR (1 << 1)
> +#define DMA_CAP_PQ (1 << 2)
Can we reuse DMA_MEMCPY and so on from enum dma_transaction_type?
--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
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