linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V14 3/5] i2c: tegra: Add DMA support

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Date:   Thu, 7 Feb 2019 12:01:53 +0100
From:   Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>
To:     Sowjanya Komatineni <skomatineni@...dia.com>
Cc:     jonathanh@...dia.com, mkarthik@...dia.com, smohammed@...dia.com,
        talho@...dia.com, digetx@...il.com, linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V14 3/5] i2c: tegra: Add DMA support

On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 11:16:07AM -0800, Sowjanya Komatineni wrote:
> This patch adds DMA support for Tegra I2C.
> 
> Tegra I2C TX and RX FIFO depth is 8 words. PIO mode is used for
> transfer size of the max FIFO depth and DMA mode is used for
> transfer size higher than max FIFO depth to save CPU overhead.
> 
> PIO mode needs full intervention of CPU to fill or empty FIFO's
> and also need to service multiple data requests interrupt for the
> same transaction. This adds delay between data bytes of the same
> transfer when CPU is fully loaded and some slave devices has
> internal timeout for no bus activity and stops transaction to
> avoid bus hang. DMA mode is helpful in such cases.
> 
> DMA mode is also helpful for Large transfers during downloading or
> uploading FW over I2C to some external devices.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sowjanya Komatineni <skomatineni@...dia.com>
> ---
>  [V14] : Switched back to use dma_alloc_coherent as it guarentees contiguous device
> 	 dma address space.
> 	 Fixed FIFO Trigger level programming to construct value from scratch.
> 	 Previous versions does register read-modify-write without masking.
> 	 T20 has DVC offsets different to I2C. This version has fix to account DVC
> 	 offset during dma slave configuration.
>  [V13] : T20 has DVC used for some power controls. This version has fix for using
> 	 proper DVC register offsets for DMA programming incase when used in DMA
> 	 mode.
>  [V12] : Replaced dma_alloc_coherent with dma_alloc_attrs to force the allocated
> 	 buffer to be contiguous also in physical memory as Tegra194 supports max
> 	 64K and dma_alloc_coherent doesnt guarentee contiguous memory.
> 	 Changed return code from EIO to EINVAL incase of failure to obtain dma
> 	 descriptor.
> 	 Fixed coding style check issues.	 
>  [V11] : Replaced deprecated dmaengine_terminate_all with dmaengine_termine_async
> 	 from non-atomic context and dmaengine_terminate_sync from atomic context.
> 	 Fixed to program fifo trigger levels properly when transfer falls back to
> 	 pio mode in case of dma slave configuration failure and other minor fixes.
>  [V10] : APBDMA is replaced with GPCDMA on Tegra186 and Tegra194 designs.
> 	 Added apbdma hw support flag to now allow Tegra186 and later use
> 	 APBDMA driver.
> 	 Added explicit flow control enable for DMA slave config and error handling.
> 	 Moved releasing DMA resources to seperate function to reuse in
> 	 multiple places.
> 	 Updated to register tegra_i2c_driver from module level rather than subsys
> 	 level.
> 	 Other minor feedback
>  [V9] :  Rebased to 5.0-rc4
> 	 Removed dependency of APB DMA in Kconfig and added conditional check
>  	 in I2C driver to decide on using DMA mode.
> 	 Changed back the allocation of dma buffer during i2c probe.
> 	 Fixed FIFO triggers depending on DMA Vs PIO.
>  [V8] :  Moved back dma init to i2c probe, removed ALL_PACKETS_XFER_COMPLETE
> 	 interrupt and using PACKETS_XFER_COMPLETE interrupt only and some
> 	 other fixes
> 	 Updated Kconfig for APB_DMA dependency
>  [V7] :  Same as V6
>  [V6] :  Updated for proper buffer allocation/freeing, channel release.
> 	 Updated to use exact xfer size for syncing dma buffer.
>  [V5] :  Same as V4
>  [V4] :  Updated to allocate DMA buffer only when DMA mode.
> 	 Updated to fall back to PIO mode when DMA channel request or
> 	 buffer allocation fails.
>  [V3] :  Updated without additional buffer allocation.
>  [V2] :  Updated based on V1 review feedback along with code cleanup for
> 	 proper implementation of DMA.
> 
> 
>  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-tegra.c | 411 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 367 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Thierry Reding <treding@...dia.com>

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