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From: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
To: Roger Quadros <rogerq@ti.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>, "Gupta, Pekon" <pekon@ti.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/36] mtd: nand: omap: Move IRQ handling from GPMC to NAND driver
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 06:16:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140701131618.GQ28884@atomide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53B2893E.5020306@ti.com>

* Roger Quadros <rogerq@ti.com> [140701 03:13]:
> On 06/13/2014 03:08 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > * Roger Quadros <rogerq@ti.com> [140613 04:43]:
> >>
> >> OK. I agree about using some kind of abstraction instead of direct access.
> > 
> > Yes and like we chatted on irc, adding a syscon mapping for for
> > the NAND specific registers might do the trick here.
> 
> After looking at the syscon driver, which relies on regmap, it seems that regmap was designed for slow control busses like I2C/SPI and using it for NAND controller register access will have a significant negative impact on performance. In the NAND case the register writes are used for each NAND command cycle and the reads for ECC checks (every page).
> 
> See how much code regmap_read and regmap_mmio_read() translates to for a simple register read i.e. readl().
> http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c#L1944
> http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/base/regmap/regmap-mmio.c#L129
> 
> So I'm not so sure of using regmap/syscon for NAND controller register access.

OK yes I agree, it's not a good solution for a constant
register access that's needed for the ECC registers.
 
> Could there be any other abstraction method of sharing the register space between GPMC and NAND driver?
> I've also added Ivan to the thread, the author of memory/ti-aemif.c driver, to check if he faced any issues with shared register access of the AEMIF/NAND registers.

If there's no common framework available for GPMC to implement,
it's best to just export few functions from gpmc.c for the ECC
calculations.

Regards,

Tony

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-01 13:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-11  8:56 [PATCH 00/36] OMAP: GPMC: Restructure and move OMAP GPMC driver out of mach-omap2 Roger Quadros
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 01/36] ARM: OMAP3: hwmod: Fix gpmc memory resource space Roger Quadros
2014-06-13  7:13   ` Tony Lindgren
2014-06-13  7:15     ` Roger Quadros
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 02/36] ARM: dts: OMAP2+: Fix GPMC register space size Roger Quadros
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 03/36] ARM: OMAP2+: gpmc: Add platform data Roger Quadros
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 04/36] ARM: OMAP2+: gpmc: Add gpmc timings and settings to " Roger Quadros
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 05/36] mtd: nand: omap: Move IRQ handling from GPMC to NAND driver Roger Quadros
2014-06-13  7:18   ` Tony Lindgren
2014-06-13  7:38     ` Roger Quadros
2014-06-13  7:58       ` Tony Lindgren
2014-06-13  8:13         ` Gupta, Pekon
2014-06-13  8:23           ` Roger Quadros
2014-06-13 10:46             ` Tony Lindgren
2014-06-13 11:42               ` Roger Quadros
2014-06-13 12:08                 ` Tony Lindgren
2014-07-01 10:11                   ` Roger Quadros
2014-07-01 13:16                     ` Tony Lindgren [this message]
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 06/36] mtd: nand: omap: Move gpmc_update_nand_reg to nand driver Roger Quadros
2014-06-13  7:19   ` Tony Lindgren
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 07/36] mtd: nand: omap: Move NAND write protect code from GPMC to NAND driver Roger Quadros
2014-06-13  7:20   ` Tony Lindgren
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 08/36] mtd: nand: omap: Copy platform data parameters to omap_nand_info data Roger Quadros
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 09/36] mtd: nand: omap: Clean up device tree support Roger Quadros
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 10/36] ARM: dts: OMAP2+: Fix NAND device nodes Roger Quadros
2014-06-13  7:21   ` Tony Lindgren
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 11/36] mtd: nand: omap: Update DT binding documentation Roger Quadros
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 12/36] ARM: dts: omap3-beagle: Add NAND device Roger Quadros
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 13/36] ARM: OMAP2+: gpmc.c: sanity check bank-width DT property Roger Quadros
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 14/36] ARM: OMAP2+: gpmc: Allow drivers to reconfigure GPMC settings & timings Roger Quadros
2014-06-13  7:25   ` Tony Lindgren
2014-06-13  7:44     ` Roger Quadros
2014-06-13  8:04       ` Tony Lindgren
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 15/36] ARM: OMAP2+: gpmc: Allow drivers to query GPMC_CLK period Roger Quadros
2014-06-13  7:26   ` Tony Lindgren
2014-06-13  7:48     ` Roger Quadros
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 16/36] mtd: onenand: omap: Remove regulator management code Roger Quadros
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 17/36] ARM: OMAP2+: gpmc-onenand: Use Async settings/timings by default Roger Quadros
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 18/36] ARM: OMAP2+: gpmc-onenand: Move Synchronous setting code to drivers/ Roger Quadros
2014-06-13  7:55   ` Tony Lindgren
2014-06-13  8:30     ` Roger Quadros
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 19/36] mtd: onenand: omap: Use devres managed resources Roger Quadros
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 20/36] mtd: onenand: omap: Clean up device tree support Roger Quadros
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 21/36] ARM: dts: OMAP2+: Fix OneNAND device nodes Roger Quadros
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 22/36] ARM: OMAP2+: gmpc: add gpmc_generic_init() Roger Quadros
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 23/36] ARM: OMAP2+: gpmc: use platform data to configure CS space and poplulate device Roger Quadros
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 24/36] ARM: OMAP2+: gpmc: add NAND specific setup Roger Quadros
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 25/36] ARM: OMAP2+: gpmc: Support multiple Chip Selects per device Roger Quadros
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 26/36] ARM: OMAP2+: gpmc-smc91x: Get rid of retime() from omap_smc91x_platform_data Roger Quadros
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 27/36] ARM: OMAP2+: usb-tusb6010: Use omap_gpmc_retime() Roger Quadros
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 28/36] ARM: OMAP2+: nand: Update gpmc_nand_init() to use generic_gpmc_init() Roger Quadros
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 29/36] ARM: OMAP2+: gpmc-smc91x: Use gpmc_generic_init() Roger Quadros
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 30/36] ARM: OMAP2+: gpmc-smsc911x: " Roger Quadros
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 31/36] ARM: OMAP2: usb-tusb6010: " Roger Quadros
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 32/36] ARM: OMAP2+: onenand: " Roger Quadros
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 33/36] ARM: OMAP2+: board-flash: Use gpmc_generic_init() for NOR Roger Quadros
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 34/36] ARM: OMAP2+: gpmc: Make externally unused functions/defines private Roger Quadros
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 35/36] ARM: OMAP2+: gpmc: move GPMC driver into drivers/memory Roger Quadros
2014-06-11 11:45   ` [resend][PATCH " Roger Quadros
2014-06-11  8:56 ` [PATCH 36/36] ARM: OMAP2+: defconfig: Enable TI GPMC driver Roger Quadros
2014-06-11 11:52 ` [PATCH 00/36] OMAP: GPMC: Restructure and move OMAP GPMC driver out of mach-omap2 Javier Martinez Canillas
2014-06-11 11:54   ` Roger Quadros

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