4 Vinod Koul <vinod dot koul at intel.com>
6 NOTE: For DMA Engine usage in async_tx please see:
7 Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.txt
10 Below is a guide to device driver writers on how to use the Slave-DMA API of the
11 DMA Engine. This is applicable only for slave DMA usage only.
13 The slave DMA usage consists of following steps:
14 1. Allocate a DMA slave channel
15 2. Set slave and controller specific parameters
16 3. Get a descriptor for transaction
17 4. Submit the transaction
18 5. Issue pending requests and wait for callback notification
20 1. Allocate a DMA slave channel
22 Channel allocation is slightly different in the slave DMA context,
23 client drivers typically need a channel from a particular DMA
24 controller only and even in some cases a specific channel is desired.
25 To request a channel dma_request_chan() API is used.
28 struct dma_chan *dma_request_chan(struct device *dev, const char *name);
30 Which will find and return the 'name' DMA channel associated with the 'dev'
31 device. The association is done via DT, ACPI or board file based
32 dma_slave_map matching table.
34 A channel allocated via this interface is exclusive to the caller,
35 until dma_release_channel() is called.
37 2. Set slave and controller specific parameters
39 Next step is always to pass some specific information to the DMA
40 driver. Most of the generic information which a slave DMA can use
41 is in struct dma_slave_config. This allows the clients to specify
42 DMA direction, DMA addresses, bus widths, DMA burst lengths etc
45 If some DMA controllers have more parameters to be sent then they
46 should try to embed struct dma_slave_config in their controller
47 specific structure. That gives flexibility to client to pass more
48 parameters, if required.
51 int dmaengine_slave_config(struct dma_chan *chan,
52 struct dma_slave_config *config)
54 Please see the dma_slave_config structure definition in dmaengine.h
55 for a detailed explanation of the struct members. Please note
56 that the 'direction' member will be going away as it duplicates the
57 direction given in the prepare call.
59 3. Get a descriptor for transaction
61 For slave usage the various modes of slave transfers supported by the
64 slave_sg - DMA a list of scatter gather buffers from/to a peripheral
65 dma_cyclic - Perform a cyclic DMA operation from/to a peripheral till the
66 operation is explicitly stopped.
67 interleaved_dma - This is common to Slave as well as M2M clients. For slave
68 address of devices' fifo could be already known to the driver.
69 Various types of operations could be expressed by setting
70 appropriate values to the 'dma_interleaved_template' members.
72 A non-NULL return of this transfer API represents a "descriptor" for
73 the given transaction.
76 struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *dmaengine_prep_slave_sg(
77 struct dma_chan *chan, struct scatterlist *sgl,
78 unsigned int sg_len, enum dma_data_direction direction,
81 struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *dmaengine_prep_dma_cyclic(
82 struct dma_chan *chan, dma_addr_t buf_addr, size_t buf_len,
83 size_t period_len, enum dma_data_direction direction);
85 struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *dmaengine_prep_interleaved_dma(
86 struct dma_chan *chan, struct dma_interleaved_template *xt,
89 The peripheral driver is expected to have mapped the scatterlist for
90 the DMA operation prior to calling dmaengine_prep_slave_sg(), and must
91 keep the scatterlist mapped until the DMA operation has completed.
92 The scatterlist must be mapped using the DMA struct device.
93 If a mapping needs to be synchronized later, dma_sync_*_for_*() must be
94 called using the DMA struct device, too.
95 So, normal setup should look like this:
97 nr_sg = dma_map_sg(chan->device->dev, sgl, sg_len);
101 desc = dmaengine_prep_slave_sg(chan, sgl, nr_sg, direction, flags);
103 Once a descriptor has been obtained, the callback information can be
104 added and the descriptor must then be submitted. Some DMA engine
105 drivers may hold a spinlock between a successful preparation and
106 submission so it is important that these two operations are closely
110 Although the async_tx API specifies that completion callback
111 routines cannot submit any new operations, this is not the
112 case for slave/cyclic DMA.
114 For slave DMA, the subsequent transaction may not be available
115 for submission prior to callback function being invoked, so
116 slave DMA callbacks are permitted to prepare and submit a new
119 For cyclic DMA, a callback function may wish to terminate the
120 DMA via dmaengine_terminate_async().
122 Therefore, it is important that DMA engine drivers drop any
123 locks before calling the callback function which may cause a
126 Note that callbacks will always be invoked from the DMA
127 engines tasklet, never from interrupt context.
129 4. Submit the transaction
131 Once the descriptor has been prepared and the callback information
132 added, it must be placed on the DMA engine drivers pending queue.
135 dma_cookie_t dmaengine_submit(struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *desc)
137 This returns a cookie can be used to check the progress of DMA engine
138 activity via other DMA engine calls not covered in this document.
140 dmaengine_submit() will not start the DMA operation, it merely adds
141 it to the pending queue. For this, see step 5, dma_async_issue_pending.
143 5. Issue pending DMA requests and wait for callback notification
145 The transactions in the pending queue can be activated by calling the
146 issue_pending API. If channel is idle then the first transaction in
147 queue is started and subsequent ones queued up.
149 On completion of each DMA operation, the next in queue is started and
150 a tasklet triggered. The tasklet will then call the client driver
151 completion callback routine for notification, if set.
154 void dma_async_issue_pending(struct dma_chan *chan);
158 1. int dmaengine_terminate_sync(struct dma_chan *chan)
159 int dmaengine_terminate_async(struct dma_chan *chan)
160 int dmaengine_terminate_all(struct dma_chan *chan) /* DEPRECATED */
162 This causes all activity for the DMA channel to be stopped, and may
163 discard data in the DMA FIFO which hasn't been fully transferred.
164 No callback functions will be called for any incomplete transfers.
166 Two variants of this function are available.
168 dmaengine_terminate_async() might not wait until the DMA has been fully
169 stopped or until any running complete callbacks have finished. But it is
170 possible to call dmaengine_terminate_async() from atomic context or from
171 within a complete callback. dmaengine_synchronize() must be called before it
172 is safe to free the memory accessed by the DMA transfer or free resources
173 accessed from within the complete callback.
175 dmaengine_terminate_sync() will wait for the transfer and any running
176 complete callbacks to finish before it returns. But the function must not be
177 called from atomic context or from within a complete callback.
179 dmaengine_terminate_all() is deprecated and should not be used in new code.
181 2. int dmaengine_pause(struct dma_chan *chan)
183 This pauses activity on the DMA channel without data loss.
185 3. int dmaengine_resume(struct dma_chan *chan)
187 Resume a previously paused DMA channel. It is invalid to resume a
188 channel which is not currently paused.
190 4. enum dma_status dma_async_is_tx_complete(struct dma_chan *chan,
191 dma_cookie_t cookie, dma_cookie_t *last, dma_cookie_t *used)
193 This can be used to check the status of the channel. Please see
194 the documentation in include/linux/dmaengine.h for a more complete
195 description of this API.
197 This can be used in conjunction with dma_async_is_complete() and
198 the cookie returned from dmaengine_submit() to check for
199 completion of a specific DMA transaction.
202 Not all DMA engine drivers can return reliable information for
203 a running DMA channel. It is recommended that DMA engine users
204 pause or stop (via dmaengine_terminate_all()) the channel before
207 5. void dmaengine_synchronize(struct dma_chan *chan)
209 Synchronize the termination of the DMA channel to the current context.
211 This function should be used after dmaengine_terminate_async() to synchronize
212 the termination of the DMA channel to the current context. The function will
213 wait for the transfer and any running complete callbacks to finish before it
216 If dmaengine_terminate_async() is used to stop the DMA channel this function
217 must be called before it is safe to free memory accessed by previously
218 submitted descriptors or to free any resources accessed within the complete
219 callback of previously submitted descriptors.
221 The behavior of this function is undefined if dma_async_issue_pending() has
222 been called between dmaengine_terminate_async() and this function.