linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] dmaengine: tegra-apb: Support per-burst residue granularity

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Date:   Tue, 2 Jul 2019 16:29:14 +0100
From:   Jon Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>
To:     Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@...il.com>,
        Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com>,
        Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>,
        Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
        Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@...ethink.co.uk>
CC:     <dmaengine@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] dmaengine: tegra-apb: Support per-burst residue
 granularity


On 27/06/2019 20:47, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> Tegra's APB DMA engine updates words counter after each transferred burst
> of data, hence it can report transfer's residual with more fidelity which
> may be required in cases like audio playback. In particular this fixes
> audio stuttering during playback in a chromium web browser. The patch is
> based on the original work that was made by Ben Dooks and a patch from
> downstream kernel. It was tested on Tegra20 and Tegra30 devices.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190424162348.23692-1-ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk/
> Link: https://nv-tegra.nvidia.com/gitweb/?p=linux-4.4.git;a=commit;h=c7bba40c6846fbf3eaad35c4472dcc7d8bbc02e5
> Inspired-by: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@...ethink.co.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@...il.com>
> ---
> 
> Changelog:
> 
> v3:  Added workaround for a hardware design shortcoming that results
>      in a words counter wraparound before end-of-transfer bit is set
>      in a cyclic mode.
> 
> v2:  Addressed review comments made by Jon Hunter to v1. We won't try
>      to get words count if dma_desc is on free list as it will result
>      in a NULL dereference because this case wasn't handled properly.
> 
>      The residual value is now updated properly, avoiding potential
>      integer overflow by adding the "bytes" to the "bytes_transferred"
>      instead of the subtraction.
> 
>  drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 62 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c b/drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c
> index 79e9593815f1..71473eda28ee 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c
> @@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ struct tegra_dma_sg_req {
>  	bool				last_sg;
>  	struct list_head		node;
>  	struct tegra_dma_desc		*dma_desc;
> +	unsigned int			words_xferred;
>  };
>  
>  /*
> @@ -496,6 +497,7 @@ static void tegra_dma_configure_for_next(struct tegra_dma_channel *tdc,
>  	tdc_write(tdc, TEGRA_APBDMA_CHAN_CSR,
>  				nsg_req->ch_regs.csr | TEGRA_APBDMA_CSR_ENB);
>  	nsg_req->configured = true;
> +	nsg_req->words_xferred = 0;
>  
>  	tegra_dma_resume(tdc);
>  }
> @@ -511,6 +513,7 @@ static void tdc_start_head_req(struct tegra_dma_channel *tdc)
>  					typeof(*sg_req), node);
>  	tegra_dma_start(tdc, sg_req);
>  	sg_req->configured = true;
> +	sg_req->words_xferred = 0;
>  	tdc->busy = true;
>  }
>  
> @@ -797,6 +800,61 @@ static int tegra_dma_terminate_all(struct dma_chan *dc)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +static unsigned int tegra_dma_sg_bytes_xferred(struct tegra_dma_channel *tdc,
> +					       struct tegra_dma_sg_req *sg_req)
> +{
> +	unsigned long status, wcount = 0;
> +
> +	if (!list_is_first(&sg_req->node, &tdc->pending_sg_req))
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	if (tdc->tdma->chip_data->support_separate_wcount_reg)
> +		wcount = tdc_read(tdc, TEGRA_APBDMA_CHAN_WORD_TRANSFER);
> +
> +	status = tdc_read(tdc, TEGRA_APBDMA_CHAN_STATUS);
> +
> +	if (!tdc->tdma->chip_data->support_separate_wcount_reg)
> +		wcount = status;
> +
> +	if (status & TEGRA_APBDMA_STATUS_ISE_EOC)
> +		return sg_req->req_len;
> +
> +	wcount = get_current_xferred_count(tdc, sg_req, wcount);
> +
> +	if (!wcount) {
> +		/*
> +		 * If wcount wasn't ever polled for this SG before, then
> +		 * simply assume that transfer hasn't started yet.
> +		 *
> +		 * Otherwise it's the end of the transfer.
> +		 *
> +		 * The alternative would be to poll the status register
> +		 * until EOC bit is set or wcount goes UP. That's so
> +		 * because EOC bit is getting set only after the last
> +		 * burst's completion and counter is less than the actual
> +		 * transfer size by 4 bytes. The counter value wraps around
> +		 * in a cyclic mode before EOC is set(!), so we can't easily
> +		 * distinguish start of transfer from its end.
> +		 */
> +		if (sg_req->words_xferred)
> +			wcount = sg_req->req_len - 4;
> +
> +	} else if (wcount < sg_req->words_xferred) {

Minor comment, why not ...

	} else if WARN_ON_ONCE(wcount < sg_req->words_xferred) {

Otherwise ...

Reviewed-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>

Cheers
Jon

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