On Wednesday 02 July 2014 11:02 AM, Greg KH wrote:

On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 10:29:39PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:

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On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 10:40:21AM +0530, Raghavendra wrote:

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Hello,

I have a query regarding DMA(Direct Memory Access) for the usb devices.

The understanding of DMA actions over PCI is straight forward. PCI
devices support bus mastering capability, such that the PCI devices
could take the ownership of the bus and perform access to the memory
directly, and a software support exists for the same in Linux.

As far as USB devices are concerned, they don?t have the bus mastering
capability like the PCI devices.
But the USB URB structure have a field named 'dma_addr_t transfer_dma',
used for DMA access. The USB driver allocate the DMA buffers coherently
and pass the DMA address to the URBs during its initialization.
As far as Linux is concerned, how the DMA action being taking place for
USB devices. As per my understanding, the USB host controller is taking
care of the DMA operations. But I require a little more insight into it.

Why, what exactly are you concerned about?  What are you trying to do?

Also, you _have_ read the USB DMA documentation, right?

What about the documentation in this area is unclear?

Yes, I have read the documentation and its fine. I am mostly concerned 
about the all the heavy lifting happening in the background.

thanks,

greg k-h

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