[RFC PATCH v2 8/9] USB: add HCD_NO_COHERENT_MEM host controller driver flag

Alan Stern stern at rowland.harvard.edu
Wed Mar 3 02:50:23 EST 2010


On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Albert Herranz wrote:

> > 	If transfer_buffer_length is 0 then do nothing.
> > 	Otherwise if num_sgs > 0 then do nothing.
> > 	Otherwise if URB_NO_TRANSFER_DMA_MAP and transfer_dma
> > 		are both set (this avoids your HCD_NO_COHERENT_MEM
> > 		case) then do nothing.
> > 
> 
> I see. This case would include the PIO case too (for which dma_handle
> is set to all 1s).

The test above should be transfer_dma != ~0, not transfer_dma != 0,
since ~0 means the DMA address isn't set.  In fact I forgot to 
include the PIO case; it should be handled by changing the remaining 
tests as follows:

	Otherwise if hcd->self.uses_dma is set then
		If this URB doesn't require PIO then call dma_map_single
	Otherwise if HCD_LOCAL_MEM is set then call hcd_alloc_coherent
	Otherwise do nothing (PIO case).

Currently "this URB doesn't require PIO" is always true, but in the 
future it won't be.

> So this assumes that transfer_dma should be set initially to 0 when
> allocating USB buffers for HCD_NO_COHERENT_MEM.

No, it should be set to ~0, the same as when buffers are allocated for 
a PIO-based controller.

Alan Stern



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