linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] dmaengine: Add an enum for the dmaengine alignment constraints

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Message-ID: <20150720110325.502af335@free-electrons.com>
Date:	Mon, 20 Jul 2015 11:03:25 +0200
From:	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>
To:	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>,
	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>,
	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com>,
	Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@...el.com>,
	Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>,
	dmaengine@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] dmaengine: Add an enum for the dmaengine
 alignment constraints

Maxime,

On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 10:41:32 +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:

>  /**
> + * enum dmaengine_alignment - defines alignment of the DMA async tx
> + * buffers
> + */
> +enum dmaengine_alignment {
> +	DMAENGINE_ALIGN_1_BYTE = 0,
> +	DMAENGINE_ALIGN_2_BYTES = 1,
> +	DMAENGINE_ALIGN_4_BYTES = 2,
> +	DMAENGINE_ALIGN_8_BYTES = 3,
> +	DMAENGINE_ALIGN_16_BYTES = 4,
> +	DMAENGINE_ALIGN_32_BYTES = 5,
> +	DMAENGINE_ALIGN_64_BYTES = 6,
> +};

Sorry I didn't think about this during the first iteration, but this
define is just the log2 of the values, no? So maybe you could simply do
something like:

static inline unsigned int dmaengine_alignment(size_t bytes)
{
	return ilog2(bytes);
}

Best regards,

Thomas
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