dmaengine: doc: Add sections for per descriptor metadata support
Update the provider and client documentation with details about the
metadata support.
Signed-off-by: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Tero Kristo <t-kristo@ti.com>
Tested-by: Keerthy <j-keerthy@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@ti.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191223110458.30766-4-peter.ujfalusi@ti.com
Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/provider.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/provider.rst
index dfc4486..790a150 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/provider.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/provider.rst
@@ -247,6 +247,54 @@
(DMA_CYCLIC). Addresses pointing to a device's register (e.g. a FIFO)
are typically fixed.
+Per descriptor metadata support
+-------------------------------
+Some data movement architecture (DMA controller and peripherals) uses metadata
+associated with a transaction. The DMA controller role is to transfer the
+payload and the metadata alongside.
+The metadata itself is not used by the DMA engine itself, but it contains
+parameters, keys, vectors, etc for peripheral or from the peripheral.
+
+The DMAengine framework provides a generic ways to facilitate the metadata for
+descriptors. Depending on the architecture the DMA driver can implement either
+or both of the methods and it is up to the client driver to choose which one
+to use.
+
+- DESC_METADATA_CLIENT
+
+ The metadata buffer is allocated/provided by the client driver and it is
+ attached (via the dmaengine_desc_attach_metadata() helper to the descriptor.
+
+ From the DMA driver the following is expected for this mode:
+ - DMA_MEM_TO_DEV / DEV_MEM_TO_MEM
+ The data from the provided metadata buffer should be prepared for the DMA
+ controller to be sent alongside of the payload data. Either by copying to a
+ hardware descriptor, or highly coupled packet.
+ - DMA_DEV_TO_MEM
+ On transfer completion the DMA driver must copy the metadata to the client
+ provided metadata buffer before notifying the client about the completion.
+ After the transfer completion, DMA drivers must not touch the metadata
+ buffer provided by the client.
+
+- DESC_METADATA_ENGINE
+
+ The metadata buffer is allocated/managed by the DMA driver. The client driver
+ can ask for the pointer, maximum size and the currently used size of the
+ metadata and can directly update or read it. dmaengine_desc_get_metadata_ptr()
+ and dmaengine_desc_set_metadata_len() is provided as helper functions.
+
+ From the DMA driver the following is expected for this mode:
+ - get_metadata_ptr
+ Should return a pointer for the metadata buffer, the maximum size of the
+ metadata buffer and the currently used / valid (if any) bytes in the buffer.
+ - set_metadata_len
+ It is called by the clients after it have placed the metadata to the buffer
+ to let the DMA driver know the number of valid bytes provided.
+
+ Note: since the client will ask for the metadata pointer in the completion
+ callback (in DMA_DEV_TO_MEM case) the DMA driver must ensure that the
+ descriptor is not freed up prior the callback is called.
+
Device operations
-----------------