spi: bcm2835: enable dma modes for transfers meeting certain conditions
Conditions per spi_transfer are:
* transfer.len >= 96 bytes (to avoid mapping overhead costs)
* transfer.len < 65536 bytes (limitaion by spi-hw block - could get extended)
* an individual scatter/gather transfer length must be a multiple of 4
for anything but the last transfer - spi-hw block limit.
(some shortcut has been taken in can_dma to avoid unnecessary mapping of
pages which, for which there is a chance that there is a split with a
transfer length not a multiple of 4)
If it becomes a necessity these restrictions can get removed by additional
code.
Note that this patch requires a patch to dma-bcm2835.c by Noralf to
enable scatter-gather mode inside the dmaengine, which has not been
merged yet.
That is why no patch to arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm2835.dtsi is included - the
code works as before without dma when tx/rx are not set, but it writes
a message warning about dma not used:
spi-bcm2835 20204000.spi: no tx-dma configuration found - not using dma mode
To enable dma-mode add the following lines to the device-tree:
dmas = <&dma 6>, <&dma 7>;
dma-names = "tx", "rx";
Tested-by: Noralf Trønnes <noralf@tronnes.org> (private communication)
Signed-off-by: Martin Sperl <kernel@martin.sperl.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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