Re: dmaengine : xilinx_dma two issues

[Lars-Peter Clausen]

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Subject: Re: dmaengine : xilinx_dma two issues
Hi All,

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Subject: RE: dmaengine : xilinx_dma two issues

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Subject: dmaengine : xilinx_dma two issues

Hello,

I'm trying to get the 5.10 kernel up and running for our system,
and I'm running into a couple of issues with xilinx_dma.
+ (Xilinx mailing list)

Thanks for bringing the issues to our notice. Replies inline.

First, commit 14ccf0aab46e 'dmaengine: xilinx_dma: In dma channel
probe fix node order dependency' breaks our usage. Before this
commit a
call to:
dma_request_chan(&indio_dev->dev, "axi_dma_0"); returns fine, but
after that commit it returns -19. The reason for this seems to be
that the only channel that is setup is channel 1 (chan->id is 1 in
xilinx_dma_chan_probe()).
However in
of_dma_xilinx_xlate() chan_id is gets set to 0 (int chan_id =
dma_spec-
args[0];), which causes the:
!xdev->chan[chan_id]
test to fail in of_dma_xilinx_xlate()
What is the channel number passed in dmaclient DT?
Is this a question for me?
Yes, please also share the dmaclient DT client node. Need to see
channel number passed to dmas property. Something like below-

dmas = <& axi_dma_0 1>
dma-names = "axi_dma_0"
OK, I think I need to revisit this and clean it up some. Currently In
the driver (a custom iio adc driver) it is hard coded:
dma_request_chan(&indio_dev->dev, "axi_dma_0");

However, the DT also has the entries (currently unused by the driver):
         dmas = <&axi_dma_0 0>;
         dma-names = "axi_dma_0";

I'll go back and clean up our driver to do something like adi-axi-adc.c does:

         if (!device_property_present(dev, "dmas"))
                 return 0;

         if (device_property_read_string(dev, "dma-names", &dma_name))
                 dma_name = "axi_dma_0";

Should the dmas node get used by the driver? I see the second argument
is: '0' for write/tx and '1' for read/rx channel. So I should be
setting this to 1 like this?
         dmas = <&axi_dma_0 1>;
         dma-names = "axi_dma_0";

But where does that field get used?

This got broken in "dmaengine: xilinx_dma: In dma channel probe fix node 
order dependency" 
<https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=14ccf0aab46e1888e2f45b6e995c621c70b32651>. 
Before if there was only one channel that channel was always at index 0. 
Regardless of whether the channel was RX or TX. But after that change 
the RX channel is always at offset 1, regardless of whether the DMA has 
one or two channels. This is a breakage in ABI.

If you have the choice I'd recommend to not use the Xilinx DMA, it gets 
broken pretty much every other release.

- Lars