[PATCH v2 4/7] scatterlist: add sg_alloc_table_from_buf() helper
From: Boris Brezillon <hidden>
Date: 2016-03-30 18:18:31
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linux-devicetree, linux-media, linux-spi
From: Boris Brezillon <hidden>
Date: 2016-03-30 18:18:31
Also in:
linux-devicetree, linux-media, linux-spi
On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 09:51:43 -0700 Mark Brown [off-list ref] wrote:
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 05:39:51PM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:quoted
sg_alloc_table_from_buf() provides an easy solution to create an sg_table from a virtual address pointer. This function takes care of dealing with vmallocated buffers, buffer alignment, or DMA engine limitations (maximum DMA transfer size).This seems nice. Should we also have a further helper on top of this which will get constraints from a dmaengine, it seems like it'd be a common need?
Yep, we could create a wrapper extracting dma_slave caps info, converting it to sg_constraints and calling sg_alloc_table_from_buf(). But let's try to get this function accepted first, and I'll send another patch providing this wrapper. BTW, do you see other things that should be added in sg_constraints? -- Boris Brezillon, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com