Re: [Patch v2 2/4] dmaengine: tegra: Add Tegra GPC DMA driver

[Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>]

On 06/08/2020 08:30, Rajesh Gumasta wrote:
> Adding GPC DMA controller driver for Tegra186 and Tegra194. The driver
> supports dma transfers between memory to memory, IO peripheral to memory
> and memory to IO peripheral.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavan Kunapuli <pkunapuli@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rajesh Gumasta <rgumasta@nvidia.com>
> ---
>  drivers/dma/Kconfig         |   12 +
>  drivers/dma/Makefile        |    1 +
>  drivers/dma/tegra-gpc-dma.c | 1472 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 1485 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/dma/tegra-gpc-dma.c

...

> +static void tdc_start_head_req(struct tegra_dma_channel *tdc)
> +{
> +	struct tegra_dma_sg_req *sg_req;
> +	struct virt_dma_desc *vdesc;
> +
> +	if (list_empty(&tdc->pending_sg_req))
> +		return;
> +
> +	if (tdc->is_pending)
> +		return;
> +
> +	vdesc = vchan_next_desc(&tdc->vc);
> +	if (!vdesc)
> +		return;
> +	list_del(&vdesc->node);
> +	tdc->dma_desc = vd_to_tegra_dma_desc(vdesc);
> +	tdc->is_pending = true;
> +	tdc->dma_desc->tdc = tdc;
> +	sg_req = list_first_entry(&tdc->pending_sg_req,
> +				  typeof(*sg_req), node);
> +	tegra_dma_start(tdc, sg_req);
> +	sg_req->configured = true;
> +	tdc->busy = true;
> +}


I really don't understand this. First we get a descriptor for the
vchan_next_desc and then we get a sg_req from another list. I really
don't see why we need to have two lists here. Seems overly complicated.

Jon

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