dmaengine: imx-sdma: add virt-dma support
The legacy sdma driver has below limitations or drawbacks: 1. Hardcode the max BDs number as "PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(*)", and alloc one page size for one channel regardless of only few BDs needed most time. But in few cases, the max PAGE_SIZE maybe not enough. 2. One SDMA channel can't stop immediatley once channel disabled which means SDMA interrupt may come in after this channel terminated.There are some patches for this corner case such as commit "2746e2c3", but not cover non-cyclic. The common virt-dma overcomes the above limitations. It can alloc bd dynamically and free bd once this tx transfer done. No memory wasted or maximum limititation here, only depends on how many memory can be requested from kernel. For No.2, such issue can be workaround by checking if there is available descript("sdmac->desc") now once the unwanted interrupt coming. At last the common virt-dma is easier for sdma driver maintain. Signed-off-by: Robin Gong <yibin.gong@nxp.com> Reviewed-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> Tested-by: Lucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
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