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Some devices may lack the support of the hardware accelerated SG list entries automatic walking through and execution. In this case a burden of the SG list traversal and DMA engine re-initialization lies on the DMA engine driver (normally implemented by using a DMA transfer completion IRQ to recharge the DMA device with a next SG list entry). But such solution may not be suitable for some DMA consumers. In particular SPI devices need both Tx and Rx DMA channels work synchronously in order to avoid the Rx FIFO overflow. In case if Rx DMA channel is paused for some time while the Tx DMA channel works implicitly pulling data into the Rx FIFO, the later will be eventually overflown, which will cause the data loss. So if SG list entries aren't automatically fetched by the DMA engine, but are one-by-one manually selected for execution in the ISRs/deferred work/etc., such problem will eventually happen due to the non-deterministic latencies of the service execution. In order to let the DMA consumer know about the DMA device capabilities regarding the hardware accelerated SG list traversal we introduce the max_sg_burst capability. It is supposed to be initialized by the DMA engine driver with 0 if there is no limitation of the number of SG entries atomically executed and with non-zero value if there is such constraints, so the upper limit is determined by the number set to the property. Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200723005848.31907-5-Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.