[PATCH 0/9] dmaengine: Support bus widths of 32 bytes and above
Nuno Sá via B4 Relay <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:23:07 +0100
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| Message-ID | <20260730-dmaengine-support-wider-dma-masks-v1-0-3732f1f9d9ca@analog.com> |
The DMA engine slave capabilities advertise the supported source and
destination bus widths through src_addr_widths / dst_addr_widths. These
are plain u32 bitmasks where a set bit's position equals the
corresponding enum dma_slave_buswidth value, e.g.
DMA_SLAVE_BUSWIDTH_4_BYTES sets bit 4.
The consequence is that widths of 32 bytes and above cannot be
represented at all: DMA_SLAVE_BUSWIDTH_32/64/128_BYTES would need bits
32, 64 and 128, which do not fit in a u32. Hardware with wider data
paths is becoming common, so add a representation that can express these
widths while still using enum dma_slave_buswidth.
This series switches consumers and a small set of producers to bitmap
based bus width capabilities. The legacy dma_device u32 fields are kept
for now so the remaining DMA controller drivers can be converted
incrementally. dma_get_slave_caps() folds legacy producer masks into the
new bitmap representation returned to consumers.
Once the remaining producers are converted, the legacy dma_device
src/dst_addr_widths fields can be removed as a final cleanup.
This issue was discussed before here:
https://lore.kernel.org/dmaengine/abkoXXbaxaiqbBuX@vaman/
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Changes in v1:
- Drop RFC tag.
- Rename the new capability representation and helpers from address
width terminology to bus width terminology.
- Convert all current dma_get_slave_caps() consumers that used the
legacy src/dst_addr_widths fields.
- Convert a small set of DMA controller producers and the stm32-dma3
per-channel capability callback.
- Add helper documentation for the new public API.
- Link to RFC: https://lore.kernel.org/dmaengine/20260616-dmaengine-support-wider-dma-masks-v1-0-da23a8dcb756@analog.com/
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Nuno Sá (9):
dmaengine: Support bus widths of 32 bytes and above
dmaengine: dma-axi-dmac: Use bus width capability helpers
dmaengine: dw-axi-dmac: Use bus width capability helpers
dmaengine: qcom: gpi: Use bus width capability helpers
dmaengine: stm32-dma3: Use bus width capability helpers
iio: buffer-dmaengine: Use dma_slave_caps bus width accessors
ALSA: pcm_dmaengine: Use dma_slave_caps bus width helpers
spi: dw: Use dma_slave_caps bus width helpers
dmaengine: Drop legacy bus width fields from dma_slave_caps
drivers/dma/dma-axi-dmac.c | 13 +-
drivers/dma/dmaengine.c | 20 +-
drivers/dma/dw-axi-dmac/dw-axi-dmac-platform.c | 39 ++--
drivers/dma/qcom/gpi.c | 11 +-
drivers/dma/stm32/stm32-dma3.c | 32 +--
drivers/iio/buffer/industrialio-buffer-dmaengine.c | 15 +-
drivers/spi/spi-dw-dma.c | 6 +-
drivers/spi/spi-dw.h | 3 +-
include/linux/dmaengine.h | 234 ++++++++++++++++++++-
sound/core/pcm_dmaengine.c | 14 +-
10 files changed, 323 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 7524fe142b5a772f8421aeee2132cf7e21a00103
change-id: 20260615-dmaengine-support-wider-dma-masks-5aac12497e27
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Thanks!
- Nuno Sá