Re: [PATCH 4/5] dt-bindings: dma: ti-edma: Add option for reserved channel ranges

[Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@ti.com>]

Hi Rob,

On 30/08/2019 8.37, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> Rob,
> 
> On 30/08/2019 1.47, Rob Herring wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 03:56:17PM +0300, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
>>> Similarly to paRAM slots, channels can be used by other cores.
>>>
>>> Add optional property to configure the reserved channel ranges.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@ti.com>
>>> ---
>>>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/ti-edma.txt | 5 +++++
>>>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/ti-edma.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/ti-edma.txt
>>> index 4bbc94d829c8..1198682ada99 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/ti-edma.txt
>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/ti-edma.txt
>>> @@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ Optional properties:
>>>  - ti,edma-reserved-slot-ranges: PaRAM slot ranges which should not be used by
>>>  		the driver, they are allocated to be used by for example the
>>>  		DSP. See example.
>>> +- ti,edma-reserved-chan-ranges: channel ranges which should not be used by
>>> +		the driver, they are allocated to be used by for example the
>>> +		DSP. See example.
>>
>> Based on the other thread, I think extending dma-channel-mask to a 
>> uint32-array makes sense here.
> 
> Yes, that is the reason I have asked on that and I'm in progress of
> converting the edma driver to use the dma-channel-mask.
> Just need to do some shuffling in the driver to get the mask in a form
> usable by the driver.
> 
> I'll send an updated series early next week.

How should the dma-channel-mask uint31-array should be documented and used?

Basically some EDMA have 32, some 64 channels. This is fine.
Let's say I want to mask out channel 0-4 and 24-27

This would look like in case of EDMA with 32 channels:
&edma {
	/* channel 0-4 and 24-27 is not to be used */
	dma-channel-mask = <0xf0fffff0>;
};

How this should look like in case when I have 64 channels?
&edma {
	/* channel 0-4 and 24-27 is not to be used */
	dma-channel-mask = <0xf0fffff0>, <0xffffffff>;
};

When I read the u32s then
chan_mask[0] is for channel 0-31 (LSB is channel 0)
chan_maks[1] is for channel 32-63 (LSB is channel 32)

Or:
&edma {
	/* channel 0-4 and 24-27 is not to be used */
	dma-channel-mask = <0xffffffff>, <0xf0fffff0>;
};

chan_maks[0] is for channel 32-63 (LSB is channel 32)
chan_mask[1] is for channel 0-31 (LSB is channel 0)

Do you have pointer on already established notion on how to document and
handle this?

- Péter

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