Subject: Rev 1.19 of busdma.doc
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/08/1996 17:53:01
So, as promised, I'm getting a copy of this out now, albeit a little
early. I've integrated the uio idea suggested by Charles Hannum
(I began to like it more and more), so pay attention; some of the
data structures have changed :-)
I did get some comments back from Matthias Drochner, as well, but
they're more generic bus.h comments (and specifically, i386
implementation) than bus dma. As such, I'm going to adderess those
separately, with Matthias, though probably not until I return from
Pittsburgh.
In any case, the latest revision is below. Please read carefully,
and (constructively) comment. I really do want to get this implemented
in some fashion before the end of December (which is a month where I
might actually have time to work on it :-)
Ciao.
Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
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NAS $Id: busdma.doc,v 1.19 1996/11/09 01:41:35 thorpej Exp $
PURPOSE
-------
The purpose of this document is to describe a bus- and machine-independent
DMA mapping interface.
All data structures, function prototypes, and macros will be defined
by the port-specific header <machine/bus.h>. Note that this document
assumes the existence of types already defined by the current "bus.h"
interface.
Unless otherwise noted, all function calls in this interface may be
defined as CPP macros.
DATA TYPES
----------
Individual implementations may name these structures whatever they
wish, providing that the external representations are:
bus_dma_tag_t A machine-dependent opaque type
describing the implementation of
DMA for a given bus.
bus_dma_handle_t A machine-dependent opaque type
describing a complete DMA mapping.
The mapping is considered invalid until
the handle is used in a dmamap load
operation. After a DMA transaction,
a dmamap unload operation is used to
invalidate the mapping.
bus_dmamap_load_func_t A driver-dependent function used to load
a device's scatter-gather descriptors.
The type of the function should be:
typedef int (*bus_dmamap_load_func_t) __P((bus_addr_t addr,
bus_size_t size, void *arg));
This function will be called iteratively
by bus_dmamap_load() with the address
and length of a single, contiguous DMA
transfer, conforming to the constraints
of the device. "arg" is a driver-dependent
cookie used by the driver to keep state
between iterations.
See bus_dmamap_load() for more details.
bus_dmasync_op_t An enumerated type providing the following
unique values:
BUS_DMASYNC_PREREAD
BUS_DMASYNC_POSTREAD
BUS_DMASYNC_PREWRITE
BUS_DMASYNC_POSTWRITE
See bus_dmamap_sync() for more details.
FUNCTIONS
---------
int bus_dmamap_create __P((bus_dma_tag_t tag, bus_size_t size,
int nsegments, bus_size_t maxsegsz, int flags,
bus_dma_handle_t *dmahp));
bus_dmamap_create() allocates a dma handle and initializes
it according to the paramters provided. Arguments are
as follows:
tag This is the bus_dma_tag_t passed down from the
parent driver via <bus>_attach_args.
size This is the maximum DMA transfer that can
be mapped by the handle.
nsegments Number of segments the device can support
in a single DMA transaction. This may
be the number of scatter-gather descriptors
supported by the device.
maxsegsz The maximum number of bytes that may be
transfered by any given DMA segment.
flags Flags are defined as follows:
BUS_DMA_WAITOK It is safe to wait (sleep)
for resouces during this call.
BUS_DMA_NOWAIT It is not safe to wait (sleep)
for resources during this call.
BUS_DMA_ALLOCNOW Perform any resource allocation
this handle may need now.
If this is not specified, the
allocation may be deferred to
bus_dmamap_load(). If this flag
is specified, bus_dmamap_load()
will not block on resource
allocation.
BUS_DMA_BUS[1-4] These flags are placeholders,
and may be used by busses to
provide bus-dependent functionality.
dmahp This is a pointer to a bus_dma_handle_t.
A dma handle will be allocated and
pointed to by *dmahp upon sucessful completion
of this routine.
Behavior is not defined if invalid arguments are passed to
bus_dmamap_create().
RETURN VALUES
Returns 0 on success or an error code to indicate mode of failure.
void bus_dmamap_destroy __P((bus_dma_tag_t tag, bus_dma_handle_t dmah));
bus_dmamap_destroy() frees all resources associated with a
given dma handle. Arguments are as follows:
tag This is the bus_dma_tag_t passed down from the
parent driver via <bus>_attach_args.
dmah The dma handle to destroy.
In the event that the dma handle contains a valid mapping,
the mapping will be unloaded via the same mechanism used
by bus_dmamap_unload().
Behavior is not defined if invalid arguments are passed
to bus_dmamap_destroy().
RETURN VALUES
If given valid arguments, bus_dmamap_destroy() always suceeds.
int bus_dmamap_load __P((bus_dma_tag_t tag, bus_dma_handle_t dmah,
struct uio *uio, bus_dmamap_load_func_t func, void *funcarg,
int flags));
bus_dmamap_load() loads a dma handle with mappings for a
DMA transfer. Arguments are as follows:
tag This is the bus_dma_tag_t passed down from the
parent driver via <bus>_attach_args.
dmah The dma handle with which to map the
transfer.
uio A pointer to a struct uio, which describes
the buffers involved in the DMA transfer.
The uio structure will contain iovecs which
describe the buffers involved in the transfer,
and will set "uio_segflg" to indicate DMA
to/from kernel or user address space. If
"uio_segflg" is UIO_USERSPACE, then the buffers
are assumed to be in "uio_procp"'s address
space. bus_dmamap_load() will ignore the
value of "uio_rw". bus_dmamap_load() will
adjust the "uio_offset" and "uio_resid"
values as necessary while iterating over
the uio.
func For each physically contiguous DMA segment
in the uio, this function will be called
with an address and length suitable for
programming into DMA controller registers
or command blocks. In addition, this function
will be passed a driver-dependent argument
which may be used to keep state between
calls to "func".
This function will be called no more than the
number of times specified by the "nsegments"
parameter passed to bus_dmamap_create().
The length passed to "func" is bound by
the "maxsegsz" argument passed to
bus_dmamap_create().
This function should return 0 on success
or an error code to indicate the mode of
failure.
funcarg The driver-dependent argument passed to
"func".
flags Flags are defined as follows:
BUS_DMA_WAITOK It is safe to wait (sleep)
for resources during this call.
BUS_DMA_NOWAIT It is not safe to wait (sleep)
for resources during this call.
BUS_DMA_BUS[1-4] These flags are placeholders,
and may be used by busses to
provide bus-dependent functionality.
As noted above, if a dma handle is created with
BUS_DMA_ALLOCNOW, bus_dmamap_load() will never block.
If a call to bus_dmamap_load() fails, the mapping in
the dma handle will be invalid. It is the responsibility
of the caller to clean up any inconsistent device state
resulting from incomplete iteration through the uio.
Behavior is not defined if invalid arguments are passed to
bus_dmamap_load().
RETURN VALUES
Returns 0 on success or an error code to indicate mode of failure.
void bus_dmamap_unload __P((bus_dma_tag_t tag, bus_dma_handle_t dmah));
bus_dmamap_unload() deletes the mappings for a given
dma handle. Arguments are as follows:
tag This is the bus_dma_tag_t passed down from the
parent driver via <bus>_attach_args.
dmah The dma handle containing the mappings
which are to be deleted.
If the dma handle was created with BUS_DMA_ALLOCNOW,
bus_dmamap_unload() will not free the corresponding
resources which were allocated by bus_dmamap_create().
This is to ensure that bus_dmamap_load() will never block
on resources if the handle was created with BUS_DMA_ALLOCNOW.
Behavior is not defined if invalid arguments are passed to
bus_dmamap_unload().
RETURN VALUES
If given valid arguments, bus_dmamap_unload() always suceeds.
void bus_dmamap_sync __P((bus_dma_tag_t tag, bus_dma_handle_t dmah,
bus_dmasync_op_t op));
bus_dmamap_sync() performs pre- and post-DMA operation
cache and/or buffer synchronization. Arguments are as follows:
tag This is the bus_dma_tag_t passed down from the
parent driver via <bus>_attach_args.
dmah The DMA mapping to be synchronized.
op The synchronization operation to perform.
The following DMA synchronization operations are defined:
BUS_DMASYNC_PREREAD Perform any pre-read DMA cache
and/or bounce operations.
BUS_DMASYNC_POSTREAD Perform any post-read DMA cache
and/or bounce operations.
BUS_DMASYNC_PREWRITE Perform any pre-write DMA cache
and/or bounce operations.
BUS_DMASYNC_POSTWRITE Perform any post-write DMA cache
and/or bounce operations.
This function exists so that multiple read and write transfers
can be performed with the same buffer, and so that drivers can
explicitly inform the bus DMA code when their data is 'ready'
in its DMA buffer.
An example of multiple read-write use of a single mapping
might look like:
bus_dmamap_load(...);
while (not done) {
/* invalidate soon-to-be-stale cache blocks */
bus_dmamap_sync(..., BUS_DMASYNC_PREREAD);
[ do read DMA ]
/* copy from bounce */
bus_dmamap_sync(..., BUS_DMASYNC_POSTREAD);
/* read data now in driver-provided buffer */
[ computation ]
/* data to be written now in driver-provided buffer */
/* flush write buffers and writeback, copy to bounce */
bus_dmamap_sync(..., BUS_DMASYNC_PREWRITE);
[ do write DMA ]
/* probably a no-op, but provided for consistency */
bus_dmamap_sync(..., BUS_DMASYNC_POSTWRITE);
}
bus_dmamap_unload(...);
If DMA read and write operations are not preceeded and followed
by the apropriate synchronization operations, behavior is
undefined.
Behavior is not defined if invalid arguments are passed to
bus_dmamap_sync().
RETURN VALUES
If given valid arguments, bus_dmamap_sync() always succeeds.
caddr_t bus_dmamem_alloc __P((bus_dma_tag_t tag, size_t size,
int nsegments, bus_size_t alignment, struct proc *p,
int flags));
bus_dmamem_alloc() allocates memory that is "DMA safe"
for the bus corresponding to the given tag and maps it
into virtual address space as determined by "p" (see below).
Arguments are as follows:
tag The is the bus_dma_tag_t passed down from the
parent driver via <bus>_attach_args.
size The amount of memory to allocate.
nsegments Specifies the maximum number of segments
that may compose the allocated memory. For
example, if this value is 1, the entire
allocated memory region must be physically
contiguous. If this value is 2, the allocated
memory region may consist of up to 2
physically contigious segments, etc.
alignment Each segment will be aligned on this boundary.
Alignment must be a power of 2. If no alignment
is necessary, the value 1 should be specified.
p This argument is used to determine which
address space in which to map allocated
physical pages. If "p" is NULL, the pages
are mapped into kernel virtual address
space. Otherwise, the pages are mapped
into the virtual address space of process "p".
flags Flags are defined as follows:
BUS_DMA_WAITOK It is safe to wait (sleep)
for resources during this call.
BUS_DMA_NOWAIT It is not safe to wait (sleep)
for resources during this call.
BUS_DMA_BUS[1-4] These flags are placeholders,
and may be used by busses to
provide bus-dependent functionality.
All pages allocated by bus_dmamem_alloc() will be wired down
until they are freed by bus_dmamem_free().
Behavior is undefined if invalid arguments are passed to
bus_dmamem_alloc().
RETURN VALUES
Returns the virtual address in the address space selected by "p"
of the allocated memory or NULL if the request cannot be satisfied.
void bus_dmamem_free __P((bus_dma_tag_t tag, caddr_t va,
size_t size, struct proc *p));
bus_dmamem_free() unmaps and frees memory previously allocated
by bus_dmamem_alloc(). Arguements are as follows:
tag This is the bus_dma_tag_t passed down from the
parent driver via <bus>_attach_args.
va The virtual address of the memory region to be
freed.
size The amount of memory that was allocated
but bus_dmamem_alloc().
p This argument is used to determine which
address space the pages were mapped into.
If "p" is NULL, pages were mapped into
kernel virtual address space. Otherwise,
pages were mapped into the virtual address
space of process "p".
Behavior is undefined if invalid arguments are passed to
bus_dmamem_free().
RETURN VALUES
If given valid arguments, bus_dmamem_free() always succeeds.