Reorg of 32-bit dma code
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Feb 7 12:26:34 EST 2008
On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 18:32 -0600, Becky Bruce wrote:
>
> I've been looking at converting 32-bit powerpc's DMA code over to the
> 64-bit method, where there is a dma_ops structure inside archdata
> that tells us which operations a device should use for DMA. I'll be
> needing this shortly because I need to implement swiotlb to deal with
> PCI and large amounts of RAM on 32-bit systems that support 36-bit
> physical addressing. (Yes, I know. Fun for me. Woohoo.)
>
> Anyway, I have an initial booting first pass, and wanted to get some
> feedback. What I've done at this point is to make dma_64 common to both
> architectures (will rename it when I send a real patch...). The
> dma_direct_* functions have been changed to work on both 32/64, and the
> old dma_* functionality in dma-mapping.h has been removed. For now, to
> avoid whacking on every 32-bit platform, the get_dma_ops() function has
> been changed to return &dma_direct_ops if the device pointer exists but
> the dma_ops field is NULL. I'm not sure if this needs to be ifdef'd for
> 64-bit?
I'd prefer so yes.
> I've copied a bit of code over from pci_64.c into pci_common.c - some of
> it isn't in use yet but will be once I start doing actual setup in the
> platform code. pcibios_setup_new_device() becomes common as well.
Cool !
> I've
> also temporarily hacked the 32-bit code to set archdata.dma_data to
> PCI_DRAM_OFFSET, so we can eliminate the use of virt_to_bus() and instead
> use the 64-bit method, which gets rid of some ugly ifdefs in the dma code.
Ok.
> That's really about it - the preliminary patch is below - clearly it will
> need some cleanup, but I wanted to post early and often. Any feedback or
> suggestions on cleaning this up are greatly appreciated.
I'll have a look asap, thanks for doing this !
Ben.
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