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diff --git a/Documentation/dmaengine/client.txt b/Documentation/dmaengine/client.txt deleted file mode 100644 index c72b456..0000000 --- a/Documentation/dmaengine/client.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,222 +0,0 @@ - DMA Engine API Guide - ==================== - - Vinod Koul <vinod dot koul at intel.com> - -NOTE: For DMA Engine usage in async_tx please see: - Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.txt - - -Below is a guide to device driver writers on how to use the Slave-DMA API of the -DMA Engine. This is applicable only for slave DMA usage only. - -The slave DMA usage consists of following steps: -1. Allocate a DMA slave channel -2. Set slave and controller specific parameters -3. Get a descriptor for transaction -4. Submit the transaction -5. Issue pending requests and wait for callback notification - -1. Allocate a DMA slave channel - - Channel allocation is slightly different in the slave DMA context, - client drivers typically need a channel from a particular DMA - controller only and even in some cases a specific channel is desired. - To request a channel dma_request_chan() API is used. - - Interface: - struct dma_chan *dma_request_chan(struct device *dev, const char *name); - - Which will find and return the 'name' DMA channel associated with the 'dev' - device. The association is done via DT, ACPI or board file based - dma_slave_map matching table. - - A channel allocated via this interface is exclusive to the caller, - until dma_release_channel() is called. - -2. Set slave and controller specific parameters - - Next step is always to pass some specific information to the DMA - driver. Most of the generic information which a slave DMA can use - is in struct dma_slave_config. This allows the clients to specify - DMA direction, DMA addresses, bus widths, DMA burst lengths etc - for the peripheral. - - If some DMA controllers have more parameters to be sent then they - should try to embed struct dma_slave_config in their controller - specific structure. That gives flexibility to client to pass more - parameters, if required. - - Interface: - int dmaengine_slave_config(struct dma_chan *chan, - struct dma_slave_config *config) - - Please see the dma_slave_config structure definition in dmaengine.h - for a detailed explanation of the struct members. Please note - that the 'direction' member will be going away as it duplicates the - direction given in the prepare call. - -3. Get a descriptor for transaction - - For slave usage the various modes of slave transfers supported by the - DMA-engine are: - - slave_sg - DMA a list of scatter gather buffers from/to a peripheral - dma_cyclic - Perform a cyclic DMA operation from/to a peripheral till the - operation is explicitly stopped. - interleaved_dma - This is common to Slave as well as M2M clients. For slave - address of devices' fifo could be already known to the driver. - Various types of operations could be expressed by setting - appropriate values to the 'dma_interleaved_template' members. - - A non-NULL return of this transfer API represents a "descriptor" for - the given transaction. - - Interface: - struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *dmaengine_prep_slave_sg( - struct dma_chan *chan, struct scatterlist *sgl, - unsigned int sg_len, enum dma_data_direction direction, - unsigned long flags); - - struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *dmaengine_prep_dma_cyclic( - struct dma_chan *chan, dma_addr_t buf_addr, size_t buf_len, - size_t period_len, enum dma_data_direction direction); - - struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *dmaengine_prep_interleaved_dma( - struct dma_chan *chan, struct dma_interleaved_template *xt, - unsigned long flags); - - The peripheral driver is expected to have mapped the scatterlist for - the DMA operation prior to calling dmaengine_prep_slave_sg(), and must - keep the scatterlist mapped until the DMA operation has completed. - The scatterlist must be mapped using the DMA struct device. - If a mapping needs to be synchronized later, dma_sync_*_for_*() must be - called using the DMA struct device, too. - So, normal setup should look like this: - - nr_sg = dma_map_sg(chan->device->dev, sgl, sg_len); - if (nr_sg == 0) - /* error */ - - desc = dmaengine_prep_slave_sg(chan, sgl, nr_sg, direction, flags); - - Once a descriptor has been obtained, the callback information can be - added and the descriptor must then be submitted. Some DMA engine - drivers may hold a spinlock between a successful preparation and - submission so it is important that these two operations are closely - paired. - - Note: - Although the async_tx API specifies that completion callback - routines cannot submit any new operations, this is not the - case for slave/cyclic DMA. - - For slave DMA, the subsequent transaction may not be available - for submission prior to callback function being invoked, so - slave DMA callbacks are permitted to prepare and submit a new - transaction. - - For cyclic DMA, a callback function may wish to terminate the - DMA via dmaengine_terminate_async(). - - Therefore, it is important that DMA engine drivers drop any - locks before calling the callback function which may cause a - deadlock. - - Note that callbacks will always be invoked from the DMA - engines tasklet, never from interrupt context. - -4. Submit the transaction - - Once the descriptor has been prepared and the callback information - added, it must be placed on the DMA engine drivers pending queue. - - Interface: - dma_cookie_t dmaengine_submit(struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *desc) - - This returns a cookie can be used to check the progress of DMA engine - activity via other DMA engine calls not covered in this document. - - dmaengine_submit() will not start the DMA operation, it merely adds - it to the pending queue. For this, see step 5, dma_async_issue_pending. - -5. Issue pending DMA requests and wait for callback notification - - The transactions in the pending queue can be activated by calling the - issue_pending API. If channel is idle then the first transaction in - queue is started and subsequent ones queued up. - - On completion of each DMA operation, the next in queue is started and - a tasklet triggered. The tasklet will then call the client driver - completion callback routine for notification, if set. - - Interface: - void dma_async_issue_pending(struct dma_chan *chan); - -Further APIs: - -1. int dmaengine_terminate_sync(struct dma_chan *chan) - int dmaengine_terminate_async(struct dma_chan *chan) - int dmaengine_terminate_all(struct dma_chan *chan) /* DEPRECATED */ - - This causes all activity for the DMA channel to be stopped, and may - discard data in the DMA FIFO which hasn't been fully transferred. - No callback functions will be called for any incomplete transfers. - - Two variants of this function are available. - - dmaengine_terminate_async() might not wait until the DMA has been fully - stopped or until any running complete callbacks have finished. But it is - possible to call dmaengine_terminate_async() from atomic context or from - within a complete callback. dmaengine_synchronize() must be called before it - is safe to free the memory accessed by the DMA transfer or free resources - accessed from within the complete callback. - - dmaengine_terminate_sync() will wait for the transfer and any running - complete callbacks to finish before it returns. But the function must not be - called from atomic context or from within a complete callback. - - dmaengine_terminate_all() is deprecated and should not be used in new code. - -2. int dmaengine_pause(struct dma_chan *chan) - - This pauses activity on the DMA channel without data loss. - -3. int dmaengine_resume(struct dma_chan *chan) - - Resume a previously paused DMA channel. It is invalid to resume a - channel which is not currently paused. - -4. enum dma_status dma_async_is_tx_complete(struct dma_chan *chan, - dma_cookie_t cookie, dma_cookie_t *last, dma_cookie_t *used) - - This can be used to check the status of the channel. Please see - the documentation in include/linux/dmaengine.h for a more complete - description of this API. - - This can be used in conjunction with dma_async_is_complete() and - the cookie returned from dmaengine_submit() to check for - completion of a specific DMA transaction. - - Note: - Not all DMA engine drivers can return reliable information for - a running DMA channel. It is recommended that DMA engine users - pause or stop (via dmaengine_terminate_all()) the channel before - using this API. - -5. void dmaengine_synchronize(struct dma_chan *chan) - - Synchronize the termination of the DMA channel to the current context. - - This function should be used after dmaengine_terminate_async() to synchronize - the termination of the DMA channel to the current context. The function will - wait for the transfer and any running complete callbacks to finish before it - returns. - - If dmaengine_terminate_async() is used to stop the DMA channel this function - must be called before it is safe to free memory accessed by previously - submitted descriptors or to free any resources accessed within the complete - callback of previously submitted descriptors. - - The behavior of this function is undefined if dma_async_issue_pending() has - been called between dmaengine_terminate_async() and this function. |