linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V17 2/3] dmaengine: qcom

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Message-ID: <20160427081501.GV2274@localhost>
Date:	Wed, 27 Apr 2016 13:45:01 +0530
From:	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
To:	Sinan Kaya <okaya@...eaurora.org>
Cc:	dmaengine@...r.kernel.org, timur@...eaurora.org,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, cov@...eaurora.org, jcm@...hat.com,
	shankerd@...eaurora.org, vikrams@...eaurora.org,
	marc.zyngier@....com, mark.rutland@....com, eric.auger@...aro.org,
	agross@...eaurora.org, arnd@...db.de,
	linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V17 2/3] dmaengine: qcom_hidma: add debugfs hooks

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 12:55:18PM -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> On 4/26/2016 12:25 PM, Vinod Koul wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 08:08:16AM -0400, okaya@...eaurora.org wrote:
> >> On 2016-04-25 23:30, Vinod Koul wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 10:21:12AM -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> +static int hidma_chan_stats(struct seq_file *s, void *unused)
> >>>> +{
> >>>> +	struct hidma_chan *mchan = s->private;
> >>>> +	struct hidma_desc *mdesc;
> >>>> +	struct hidma_dev *dmadev = mchan->dmadev;
> >>>> +
> >>>> +	pm_runtime_get_sync(dmadev->ddev.dev);
> >>>
> >>> debug shouldn't power up device, why do you want to do that
> >>
> >>
> >> Clocks are turned off while the hw is idle. I can’t reach hw
> >> registers without restoring power.
> > 
> > Hmm, have you thought about using regmap?
> > 
> 
> To be honest, I didn't know what regmap is but I just read some code
> and looked at how it is used. Feel free to correct me if I got it 
> wrong. 
> 
> Regmap seems to be designed for *slow* speed peripherals to improve frequent
> accesses by the SW. It looks like it is used by MFD, SPI and I2C drivers.
> 
> It seems to cache the register contents and flush/invalidate them only when
> needed.
> 
> The MMIO version seems to be assuming the presence of device-tree like CLK
> API which doesn't exist on ACPI systems and is not portable.
> 
> My reaction is that it is a lot of code with no added functionality to what
> HIDMA driver is trying to achieve. 
> 
> Given that the use case here is only for debug purposes; I think it is OK 
> to keep this runtime call here. I don't want to add any overhead into the
> existing code just to support the debug use case.  
> 
> None of my register read/writes are slow. This file will only be used to 
> troubleshoot customer issues.

$ is always faster than MMIO. This way you can give reg contents to users
without waking up hw.

Also we at Intel use regmap on ACPI systems without CLK API

-- 
~Vinod