Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] PCIe EPF support for internal DMAC handling and driver update for R-Car PCIe EP to support DMAC

["Lad, Prabhakar" <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 10:50 AM Manivannan Sadhasivam
<manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 09:24:19AM +0000, Lad, Prabhakar wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 8:40 AM Manivannan Sadhasivam
> > <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 07:50:38PM +0000, Lad Prabhakar wrote:
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > The current PCIe EPF framework supports DMA data transfers using external
> > > > DMA only, this patch series aims to add support for platforms supporting
> > > > internal DMAC on PCIe for data transfers.
> > > >
> > > > R-Car PCIe supports internal DMAC to transfer data between Internal Bus to
> > > > PCI Express and vice versa. Last patch fills up the required flags and ops
> > > > to support internal DMAC.
> > > >
> > > > Patches 1-3 are for PCIe EPF core to support internal DMAC handling, patch
> > > > 4/5 is to fix test cases based on the conversation [1].
> > > >
> > >
> > > This looks similar to the Synopsys eDMA IP [1] that goes with the Synopsys PCIe
> > > endpoint IP. Why can't you represent it as a dmaengine driver and use the
> > > existing DMA support?
> > >
> > Let me have a look. Could you please share a link to the Synopsys PCIe
> > endpoint HW manual (the driver doesn't have a binding doc).
> >
>
> I don't think the PCIe reference manual is available publicly. And you are right
> that the driver is not tied to devicetree. The reason is, it gets probed using
> the PCI ID of the EP and all the resources are defined statically in the driver
> itself.
>
In R-Car PCIe the internal dmac is part of the PCIe block itself [0]
and not a separate block. I don't see any drivers implementing the
internal dmac drivers as a DMA engine driver. For example the Renesas
SDHI driver has internal dmac too, this is handled in the SDHI driver
itself [1] and not implemented as DMA engine driver. Let me know if my
understanding is wrong here.

[0] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.17-rc3/source/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/rcar-pci-ep.yaml#L76
[1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.17-rc3/source/drivers/mmc/host/renesas_sdhi_internal_dmac.c

Cheers,
Prabhakar

> Thanks,
> Mani
>
> > Cheers,
> > Prabhakar
> >
> > > [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/dma/dw-edma
> > >
> > > > Patches are based on top of [1] next branch.
> > > >
> > > > [0] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-pci/msg92385.html
> > > > [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci.git
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Prabhakar
> > > >
> > > > Lad Prabhakar (5):
> > > >   PCI: endpoint: Add ops and flag to support internal DMAC
> > > >   PCI: endpoint: Add support to data transfer using internal dmac
> > > >   misc: pci_endpoint_test: Add driver data for Renesas RZ/G2{EHMN}
> > > >   misc: pci_endpoint_test: Add support to pass flags for buffer
> > > >     allocation
> > > >   PCI: rcar-ep: Add support for DMAC
> > > >
> > > >  drivers/misc/pci_endpoint_test.c              |  56 ++++-
> > > >  drivers/pci/controller/pcie-rcar-ep.c         | 227 ++++++++++++++++++
> > > >  drivers/pci/controller/pcie-rcar.h            |  23 ++
> > > >  drivers/pci/endpoint/functions/pci-epf-test.c | 184 ++++++++++----
> > > >  drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epf-core.c           |  32 +++
> > > >  include/linux/pci-epc.h                       |   8 +
> > > >  include/linux/pci-epf.h                       |   7 +
> > > >  7 files changed, 483 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > 2.25.1
> > > >