[PATCH/RFC] dmaengine: Create symlinks from DMA channels to slaves

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Currently it is not easy to find out which DMA channels are in use, and
by which slave devices.

Fix this by creating in sysfs a "slave" symlink from the DMA channel to
the actual slave device when a channel is requested, and removing it
again when the channel is released.

For now this is limited to DT and ACPI.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
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Questions:
  1. Do you think this is useful?
  2. Should backlinks (e.g. "dma:<name>") be created from the slave
     device to the DMA channel?
     This requires storing the name in struct dma_chan, for later
     symlink removal.
  3. Should this be extended to other ways of requesting channels?
     In many cases, no device pointer is available, so a device pointer
     parameter has to be added to all DMA channel request APIs that
     don't have it yet.
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 drivers/dma/dmaengine.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c b/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c
index 03ac4b96117cd8db..c11476f76fc96bcf 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c
@@ -706,6 +706,10 @@ struct dma_chan *dma_request_chan(struct device *dev, const char *name)
 
 	if (chan) {
 		/* Valid channel found or requester needs to be deferred */
+		if (!IS_ERR(chan) &&
+		     sysfs_create_link(&chan->dev->device.kobj, &dev->kobj,
+				       "slave"))
+			dev_err(dev, "Cannot create DMA slave symlink\n");
 		if (!IS_ERR(chan) || PTR_ERR(chan) == -EPROBE_DEFER)
 			return chan;
 	}
@@ -786,6 +790,7 @@ void dma_release_channel(struct dma_chan *chan)
 	/* drop PRIVATE cap enabled by __dma_request_channel() */
 	if (--chan->device->privatecnt == 0)
 		dma_cap_clear(DMA_PRIVATE, chan->device->cap_mask);
+	sysfs_remove_link(&chan->dev->device.kobj, "slave");
 	mutex_unlock(&dma_list_mutex);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dma_release_channel);
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