Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished

From	Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished
Date	2016-12-09 19:30 +0100
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[ Dropping Mans to preserve his peace-of-mind ]

On 09/12/2016 18:56, Vinod Koul wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 06:34:15PM +0100, Mason wrote:
>> On 09/12/2016 18:17, Vinod Koul wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 11:25:57AM +0100, Sebastian Frias wrote:
>>>>
>>>> What concrete solution do you propose?
>>>
>>> I have already proposed two solutions.
>>>
>>> A) Request a channel only when you need it. Obviously we can't do virtual
>>> channels with this (though we should still use virt-channels framework).
>>> The sbox setup and teardown can be done as part of channel request and
>>> freeup. PL08x already does this.
>>>
>>> Downside is that we can only have as many consumers at a time as channels.
>>>
>>> I have not heard any technical reason for not doing this apart from drivers
>>> grab the channel at probe, which is incorrect and needs to be fixed
>>> irrespective of the problem at hand.
>>>
>>> This is my preferred option.
>>
>> There is one important drawback with this solution. If a driver calls
>> dma_request_chan() when no channels are currently available, it will
>> get -EBUSY. If there were a flag in dma_request_chan to be put to
>> sleep (with timeout) until a channel is available, then it would
>> work. But busy waiting in the client driver is a waste of power.
> 
> Right, but in that case the fallback would be PIO mode, and if that is
> not availble (IIRC some f your devices don't) then reject the usage with
> EAGAIN.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see how that would help.
Take the NAND Flash controller driver, for instance. PIO is not
an option, because the ECC engine is tied to DMA.

And failing with -EAGAIN doesn't help the busy looping situation.
The caller should be put on some kind of queue to wait for a
"channel ready" event.

Regards.

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Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> - 2016-11-25 13:50 +0100
  Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-11-25 14:20 +0100
    Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> - 2016-11-25 15:30 +0100
      Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-11-25 15:40 +0100
        Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> - 2016-11-25 16:50 +0100
  Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> - 2016-11-29 19:30 +0100
    Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> - 2016-12-06 06:10 +0100
      Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> - 2016-12-06 13:50 +0100
        Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-12-06 14:20 +0100
          Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> - 2016-12-06 16:30 +0100
            Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-12-06 16:40 +0100
              Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> - 2016-12-07 00:00 +0100
          Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> - 2016-12-07 17:40 +0100
            Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-12-07 17:50 +0100
              Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> - 2016-12-08 11:40 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> - 2016-12-08 12:00 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2016-12-08 12:20 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-12-08 12:50 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2016-12-08 13:10 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> - 2016-12-08 13:20 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-12-08 13:30 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> - 2016-12-08 17:40 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-12-08 17:50 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> - 2016-12-09 08:10 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net> - 2016-12-09 11:30 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-12-09 12:40 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished 1Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-12-09 12:40 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> - 2016-12-09 18:20 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-12-09 18:30 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> - 2016-12-09 19:00 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> - 2016-12-09 18:40 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> - 2016-12-09 19:00 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> - 2016-12-09 19:20 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> - 2016-12-09 19:30 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> - 2016-12-12 06:10 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2016-12-15 12:20 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-12-08 12:50 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2016-12-08 13:10 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-12-08 13:30 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2016-12-08 13:40 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-12-08 13:50 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> - 2016-12-08 14:40 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-12-08 14:40 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> - 2016-12-08 13:50 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> - 2016-12-08 16:50 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-12-08 17:40 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> - 2016-12-08 16:40 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> - 2016-12-08 16:50 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> - 2016-12-08 17:30 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-12-08 17:50 +0100
        Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> - 2016-12-07 17:40 +0100
          Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-12-07 17:50 +0100
            Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> - 2016-12-08 11:30 +0100
              Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-12-08 12:50 +0100

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