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Subject: Re: FW: [PATCH v20 2/4] mailbox: mediatek: Add Mediatek CMDQ driver
From:   houlong wei <houlong.wei@mediatek.com>
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Hi Jassi,

There is one request for one GCE h/w buffer which contains a list of
registers operation.
I will resubmit a version and please review again.

Thanks,
Houlong

On Thu, 2018-01-18 at 16:01 +0800, Jassi Brar wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 2:08 PM, houlong wei <houlong.wei@mediatek.com> wrote:
> > Hi Jassi,
> >
> > Sorry for reply so late.
> > According to previous discussion, there are two methods to move
> > dma_map_single() outside of spin_lock.
> > (1) put in mtk-cmdq-helper.c, as described by HS on 2017-02-09.
> >   > I think a trade-off solution is to put in mtk-cmdq-helper.c.
> >   > Although it is a mailbox client, it is not a CMDQ client.
> >   > We can include mailbox_controller.h in mtk-cmdq-helper.c (instead of
> > mtk-cmdq.h), and then map dma at cmdq_pkt_flush_async before
> > mbox_send_message.
> >
> >   > pkt->pa_base = dma_map_single(client->chan->mbox->dev, pkt->va_base,
> >   >                              pkt->cmd_buf_size, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
> > (2) schedule a tasklet in send_data().
> >
> > After internal discussion with HS and other experts, now we prefer
> > method (1).
> > How do you think about it?
> >
> I don't exactly see how you mean but please remember send_data()
> callback is supposed to be atomic ... it is protected by
> spin_lock_irqsave/restore in drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c:msg_submit()
> 
> BTW, how many requests max can be queued in the GCE h/w buffer?
> And since it's been over a year now, could you please resubmit after
> checking for checkpatch with the --strict option?
> 
> Thanks.