Re: [PATCH] dmatest: masking tests for channel capabilities

From: Jon Mason
Date: Mon Jun 17 2013 - 11:34:13 EST


On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:59:00AM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Jubin Mehta <jubin.mehta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The current dmatest module tests all the hardware capabilities (MEMCPY, XOR
> > and PQ) supported by a particular DMA channel and these tests are performed
> > concurrently by default. This patch allows the user to enable or disable the
> > test performed for any particular capability. The mask bits for enabling the
> > tests are set using the debugfs.
>
> This approach I like better.
> Dan, Vinod, what is your opinion?

I withdraw my path in favor of this one.

Thanks,
Jon

> I have couple of comments below.
>
> > +++ b/Documentation/dmatest.txt
>
> > +Method to enable the capabilities:
> > +
> > +PATH = /sys/kernel/debug/dmatest/cap_mask
> > +(DEFAULT) echo 0x07 > $PATH // Set Bits 0,1,2 for MEMCPY, XOR and PQ
> > + echo 0x01 > $PATH // Set bit 0 to enable MEMCPY
> > + echo 0x02 > $PATH // Set bit 1 to enable XOR
> > + echo 0x04 > $PATH // Set bit 2 to enable PQ
>
> What if we make examples followed by # and comments?
> And move (DEFAULT) to the commentary.
>
> > +++ b/drivers/dma/dmatest.c
>
> > +/*
> > + * Capability Mask Bits.The bits in the cap_mask denote the masking of
> > + * the hardware capabilities of the dma channel.
> > + *
> > + * DMA_CAP_MEMCPY: Bit 0 for enabling DMA_MEMCPY capability
> > + * DMA_CAP_XOR: Bit 1 for enabling DMA_XOR capabilit
> > + * DMA_CAP_PQ: Bit 2 for enabling DMA_PQ capability
> > + * DMA_CAP_ALL: Enable all the capabilities of the channel
> > + */
> > +#define DMA_CAP_MEMCPY (1 << 0)
> > +#define DMA_CAP_XOR (1 << 1)
> > +#define DMA_CAP_PQ (1 << 2)
>
> Can we reuse DMA_MEMCPY and so on from enum dma_transaction_type?
>
> --
> With Best Regards,
> Andy Shevchenko
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