Re: [PATCH RESEND] media: omap3isp: Use dma_request_chan() to requesting DMA channel

From: Peter Ujfalusi
Date: Thu Nov 03 2016 - 09:14:32 EST


On 11/03/2016 11:23 AM, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
>
> On 11/02/2016 11:19 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
>> > Hi Peter,
>> >
>> > Thank you for the patch.
>> >
>> > On Wednesday 02 Nov 2016 14:39:59 Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
>>> >> With the new dma_request_chan() the client driver does not need to look for
>>> >> the DMA resource and it does not need to pass filter_fn anymore.
>>> >> By switching to the new API the driver can now support deferred probing
>>> >> against DMA.
>> >
>> > I believe this breaks the OMAP3 ISP driver. dma_request_slave_channel_compat()
>> > is a superset of dma_request_chan() that will, when called with
>> > omap_dma_filter_fn, return as a fallback any free channel handled by the OMAP
>> > DMA engine driver. This feature is actively used by this driver and must be
>> > preserved.
> The fallback to use the filter_fn is used only when booted in legacy
> mode or when requesting a channel for non slave DMA operation.
> Based on the code in the driver it is handling slave transfers, so it
> must have DMA request line coming from somewhere. If that is missing the
> driver should not be able to work as it will not start the transfer.
>
> dma_request_chan() is to be used when you want to have slave channel
> with DMA request.
>
> If legacy mode needs to be supported then adding the hist DMA request
> number to the omap3xxx_sdma_map in arch/arm/mach-omap2/dma.c should be done.
> The reason the omap3isp is not in the table is that I could not find any
> place where the DMA resource was set (nor the DMA is specified in DT).
>
> I'm unsure how this driver could work w/o DMA request line over a random
> (and SW triggered) DMA channel with slave operation. For the slave DMA
> you need to have DMA request line.

I see now.
The omap3isp never supposed to get valid DMA request line via
platform_get_resource_byname(), it should never find the "hist" DMA in
the DT data. If it does, the driver would stop working as there is no
DMA request associated with the histogram data reading.

It is a bit misleading that it used dma_request_slave_channel_compat()
for getting the channel.

I think what would be correct is:
dma_cap_mask_t mask;

dma_cap_zero(mask);
dma_cap_set(DMA_SLAVE, mask);
hist->dma_ch = dma_request_chan_by_mask(&mask);

We will get any DMA channel capable of slave configuration, but we will
configure no DMA request number for the channel.

and document this in the driver...

--
Péter

> -- Péter
>>> >> Signed-off-by: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@xxxxxx>
>>> >> CC: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> >> CC: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> >> ---
>>> >> Hi,
>>> >>
>>> >> the original patch was sent 29.04.2016:
>>> >> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8981811/
>>> >>
>>> >> I have rebased it on top of linux-next.
>>> >>
>>> >> Regards,
>>> >> Peter
>>> >>
>>> >> drivers/media/platform/omap3isp/isphist.c | 27 +++++++++------------------
>>> >> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>>> >>
>>> >> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/omap3isp/isphist.c
>>> >> b/drivers/media/platform/omap3isp/isphist.c index
>>> >> 7138b043a4aa..e163e3d92517 100644
>>> >> --- a/drivers/media/platform/omap3isp/isphist.c
>>> >> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/omap3isp/isphist.c
>>> >> @@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
>>> >> #include <linux/delay.h>
>>> >> #include <linux/device.h>
>>> >> #include <linux/dmaengine.h>
>>> >> -#include <linux/omap-dmaengine.h>
>>> >> #include <linux/slab.h>
>>> >> #include <linux/uaccess.h>
>>> >>
>>> >> @@ -486,27 +485,19 @@ int omap3isp_hist_init(struct isp_device *isp)
>>> >> hist->isp = isp;
>>> >>
>>> >> if (HIST_CONFIG_DMA) {
>>> >> - struct platform_device *pdev = to_platform_device(isp->dev);
>>> >> - struct resource *res;
>>> >> - unsigned int sig = 0;
>>> >> - dma_cap_mask_t mask;
>>> >> -
>>> >> - dma_cap_zero(mask);
>>> >> - dma_cap_set(DMA_SLAVE, mask);
>>> >> -
>>> >> - res = platform_get_resource_byname(pdev, IORESOURCE_DMA,
>>> >> - "hist");
>>> >> - if (res)
>>> >> - sig = res->start;
>>> >> -
>>> >> - hist->dma_ch = dma_request_slave_channel_compat(mask,
>>> >> - omap_dma_filter_fn, &sig, isp->dev, "hist");
>>> >> - if (!hist->dma_ch)
>>> >> + hist->dma_ch = dma_request_chan(isp->dev, "hist");
>>> >> + if (IS_ERR(hist->dma_ch)) {
>>> >> + ret = PTR_ERR(hist->dma_ch);
>>> >> + if (ret == -EPROBE_DEFER)
>>> >> + return ret;
>>> >> +
>>> >> + hist->dma_ch = NULL;
>>> >> dev_warn(isp->dev,
>>> >> "hist: DMA channel request failed, using
>> > PIO\n");
>>> >> - else
>>> >> + } else {
>>> >> dev_dbg(isp->dev, "hist: using DMA channel %s\n",
>>> >> dma_chan_name(hist->dma_ch));
>>> >> + }
>>> >> }
>>> >>
>>> >> hist->ops = &hist_ops;
>> >