Messages in this thread | | | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Date | Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:47:06 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] dmaengine: Create symlinks between DMA channels and slaves |
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Hi Marek,
On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 11:33 AM Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> wrote: > On 30.01.2020 09:30, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 6:47 PM Marek Szyprowski > > <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> wrote: > >> On 17.01.2020 16:30, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > >>> Currently it is not easy to find out which DMA channels are in use, and > >>> which slave devices are using which channels. > >>> > >>> Fix this by creating two symlinks between the DMA channel and the actual > >>> slave device when a channel is requested: > >>> 1. A "slave" symlink from DMA channel to slave device, > >>> 2. A "dma:<name>" symlink slave device to DMA channel. > >>> When the channel is released, the symlinks are removed again. > >>> The latter requires keeping track of the slave device and the channel > >>> name in the dma_chan structure. > >>> > >>> Note that this is limited to channel request functions for requesting an > >>> exclusive slave channel that take a device pointer (dma_request_chan() > >>> and dma_request_slave_channel*()). > >>> > >>> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> > >>> Tested-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@ragnatech.se> > >> This patch breaks booting on almost all Exynos based boards: > >> > >> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-samsung-soc/20200129161113.GE3928@sirena.org.uk/T/#u > > Sorry for the breakage. > > No problem, that's why we have linux-next.
Not really: by that time it had been upstream for 2 days :-(
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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