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On 2017-08-03 12:00, Pierre Yves MORDRET wrote:

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What I actually mean is that you should not need to modify the DMA 
driver at all.
According to stm32-dma.txt:
#dma-cells = <4>;
1. channelID
2. request line number
3. - 4. some parameters

I believe if you don't have the event router (directly using the DMA 
node) you always need to provide these, right?

Correct

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If I'm not mistaken, when you use the event router you want to omit the 
ChannelID and get a random channel via dma_get_any_slave_channel in the 
DMA driver and feed back the channelID to the event router driver?

Again correct.

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I believe the reason for this is that you want to keep mixed binding 
use, to have direct DMA bindings and bindings via event router.

Well no. peripheral has to use DMAMUX and mixing up is to be avoided. This is
more for backward compatibility with SoC which doesn't have a DMAMUX.

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Now what happens if you have direct binding:
device1 {
	dmas = <&dma2 1 4 0x10400 0x3>;
};

and via event router:
device2 {
	dmas =	<&dma_router 10 0x10400 0x3>,
		<&dma_router 11 0x10400 0x3>;
};

device2 probes first, will get channelID 0 and 1 via 
dma_get_any_slave_channel.

When device1 tries to probe, the channelID 1 is already taken..

Yes this is a flaw if we mix up bindings.

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You need to convert all peripherals to use the event router to avoid 
such a races. I have done the same for the dra7.
Add the event router driver,
add the event router node and convert existing users to use that
when adding new devices, use the event router node.

The event router's binding would have 3 parameters, it manages the 
available channelIDs, like the ti-dma-crossbar does for dra7. At 
allocate time it would pick an unused channelID and craft the dma-spec 
with the four parameters as documented.
The main DMA driver will not need any modification as everything will be 
taken care of by the event router.

I look up what has been done in ti-dma-crossbar and actually this DMAMUX driver
has been well inspired from ti-dma-crossbar.
Nonetheless I understand what you meant. The channelID doesn't come from the
dmaengine and a piece a code is devised to allocate those. I could copy/paste
such code in my side but I do believe this would be better if such information
would come from dmaengine instead : this is what I did but a link/callback is
missing to craft this info until DMA. ChannelID is computed in two places in
dmaemgine and in your driver. Moreover any router is going to develop its own
channelID allocator, info which normally comes from dmaengine.

yes and no.
In my case on dr7 we have DMA request crossbar to support more events
than either eDMA or sDMA could possible handle. eDMA and sDMA works in
different ways, but the same event router driver facilitates them fine.
In sDMA any channel can service any DMA requests, while in eDMA the
channel number and the event numbers are matched (ch10 can service only
event10).

Our event router driver's task is to map the incoming event number to an
outgoing event number, which is then going to be used by the DMA driver
as incoming event. So in the crossbar we anyways need to pick an event
from the available list of unused ones. The DMA drivers (eDMA or sDMA)
would just think that the request comes via normal binding and does what
it normally does on SoC where we don't have the crossbar (OMAPs for
sDMA, daVinci, am33/am43, k2g, etc for eDMA).

I'm not sure what your DMAMUX muxes, is it the channels or the events,
but it only need to manage the needed, moving parts.

Vinod, I can update my driver to mimic what ti-dma-crossbar did to avoid the
custom API. This is s rather big change to evaluate in my side though.
However it seems to me such info should have come from dmaengine and not from
driver.
Let me know your thought about this

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The only gotcha is with memcpy type of transfers as they might also need 
unique channelID, but not requested via the slave binding. For that I 
have added properties to the event router to mask out certain channels 
(and I needed to do the same for the eDMA, but it is unrelated to the 
router itself).


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