dmaengine: Introduce max SG burst capability

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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c b/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c
index 2f1a7c0c5446..8177f78faeda 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c
@@ -594,6 +594,7 @@ int dma_get_slave_caps(struct dma_chan *chan, struct dma_slave_caps *caps)
 	caps->directions = device->directions;
 	caps->min_burst = device->min_burst;
 	caps->max_burst = device->max_burst;
+	caps->max_sg_burst = device->max_sg_burst;
 	caps->residue_granularity = device->residue_granularity;
 	caps->descriptor_reuse = device->descriptor_reuse;
 	caps->cmd_pause = !!device->device_pause;