RE: [PATCH v1 RFC 1/2] spi: introduce fallback to pio

[Robin Gong]

On 2020/06/15 Vinod Koul <vkoul@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Robin,
> 
> On 15-06-20, 08:59, Robin Gong wrote:
> > Hi Vinod,
> > 	Is there any way to let the device driver to know dma controller is
> > ready (in sdma case is sdma firmware loaded or not)before prep_call?
> > Hence, spi core could map dma buffer or not. Prep_call is too late for
> > spi core since the buffers have been already mapped.
> 
> Can you use .device_alloc_chan_resources for that? This is where all the
> resource allocation for a channel should happen...
But many client driver request dma channel(device_alloc_chan_resources)
in driver probe phase instead of later transfer startup phase.

> > 	From my view, seems dmaengine_slave_config is the only one...Further,
> > sdma need direction in dmaengine_slave_config phase, because currently
> > what's the tx/rx script used on sdma channel is decided not only
> > peripheral_type but also direction. For example, spi tx dma is running
> > ram script to workaround ecspi ERR009165 while rx dma is running rom
> > script, so only spi tx dma channel depends on sdma firmware loaded(now
> > that could be detect by ' load_address < 0' in sdma_load_context() and prep_
> call finally).
> >    I knew direction is deprecated in dmaengine_slave_config, but
> > that's really very useful for sdma to check if firmware loaded and spi
> > core could get it earlier before prep_call(fallback to PIO if dma is not ready).
> 
> I think that is wrong expectation, dmaengine_slave_config should pass the
> slave_config to driver and nothing else. The relevant action should be taken in
> respective prep_ calls here, so that should be fixed as well
Got it, thanks for your clarification.