Re: [PATCH 08/11] dmaengine: xilinx_dpdma: stop using slave_id field

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 12:49 PM Laurent Pinchart
<laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 11:21:30AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 10:14 AM Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 09:54:00AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > > @@ -1285,11 +1287,13 @@ static int xilinx_dpdma_config(struct dma_chan *dchan,
> > > >       spin_lock_irqsave(&chan->lock, flags);
> > > >
> > > >       /*
> > > > -      * Abuse the slave_id to indicate that the channel is part of a video
> > > > -      * group.
> > > > +      * Abuse the peripheral_config to indicate that the channel is part
> > >
> > > Is it still an abuse, or is this now the right way to pass custom data
> > > to the DMA engine driver ?
> >
> > It doesn't make the driver any more portable, but it's now being
> > more explicit about it. As far as I can tell, this is the best way
> > to pass data that cannot be expressed through the regular interfaces
> > in DT and the dmaengine API.
> >
> > Ideally there would be a generic way to pass this flag, but I couldn't
> > figure out what this is actually doing, or whether there is a better
> > way. Maybe Vinod has an idea.
>
> I don't think we need a generic API in this case. The DMA engine is
> specific to the display device, I don't foresee a need to mix-n-match.


Right. I wonder if there is even a point in using the dmaengine API
in that case, I think for other single-purpose drivers we tend to just
integrate the functionality in the client driver. No point changing this
now of course, but it does feel odd.

>From my earlier reading of the driver, my impression was that this
is just a memory-to-memory device, so it could be used that way
as well, but does need a flag when working on the video memory.
I couldn't quite make sense of that though.

> >         /*
> >          * Use the peripheral_config to indicate that the channel is part
> >          * of a video group. This requires matching use of the custom
> >          * structure in each driver.
> >          */
> >         pconfig = config->peripheral_config;
> >         if (WARN_ON(config->peripheral_size != 0 &&
> >                     config->peripheral_size != sizeof(*pconfig)))
> >                 return -EINVAL;
>
> How about
>
>         if (WARN_ON(config->peripheral_config &&
>                     config->peripheral_size != sizeof(*pconfig)))
>
> >
> >         spin_lock_irqsave(&chan->lock, flags);
> >         if (chan->id <= ZYNQMP_DPDMA_VIDEO2 &&
> >             config->peripheral_size == sizeof(*pconfig))
>
> And here you can test pconfig != NULL.

Good idea. Changed now, using 'if (pconfig)' without the '!= NULL'
in both expressions.

        Arnd