Re: [PATCH v5] spi: spi-ti-qspi: Add DMA support for QSPI mmap read

[Vignesh R]

On Tuesday 09 August 2016 05:03 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 04:33:11PM +0530, Vignesh R wrote:
> 
>> +static int ti_qspi_map_buf(struct ti_qspi *qspi, void *buf,
>> +			   unsigned int len, struct sg_table *sgt)
>> +{
>> +	unsigned int max_seg_size =
>> +		dma_get_max_seg_size(qspi->rx_chan->device->dev);
>> +	unsigned int desc_len = min_t(int, max_seg_size, PAGE_SIZE);
>> +	int sgs = DIV_ROUND_UP(len + offset_in_page(buf), desc_len);
>> +	struct page *vm_page;
>> +	size_t min;
>> +	int i, ret;
>> +
>> +	ret = sg_alloc_table(sgt, sgs, GFP_KERNEL);
>> +	if (ret)
>> +		return ret;
>> +
>> +	for (i = 0; i < sgs; i++) {
>> +		min = min_t(size_t, len, desc_len -
>> +			    offset_in_page(buf));
>> +		vm_page = kmap_to_page(buf);
>> +		if (!vm_page) {
>> +			sg_free_table(sgt);
>> +			return -ENOMEM;
>> +		}
>> +		sg_set_page(&sgt->sgl[i], vm_page, min,
>> +			    offset_in_page(buf));
>> +		buf += min;
>> +		len -= min;
> 
> This looks a lot like the core code for mapping the buffers - why is
> this open coded rather than reused?

According to this thread[1], converting virtual address
pointer into scatterlist which is then DMA mapped is unsafe on systems
with certain cache architecture. Hence, I added code to handle kmap
buffers inside the driver rather than updating generic spi-core code.
If its okay to update the spi_map_buf() to handle kmap buffers as above
then I can submit the patch accordingly.

[1]https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8712161/

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Regards
Vignesh