dmaengine: doc: ReSTize client API doc

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Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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-			DMA Engine API Guide
-			====================
-
-		 Vinod Koul <vinod dot koul at intel.com>
-
-NOTE: For DMA Engine usage in async_tx please see:
-	Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.txt
-
-
-Below is a guide to device driver writers on how to use the Slave-DMA API of the
-DMA Engine. This is applicable only for slave DMA usage only.
-
-The slave DMA usage consists of following steps:
-1. Allocate a DMA slave channel
-2. Set slave and controller specific parameters
-3. Get a descriptor for transaction
-4. Submit the transaction
-5. Issue pending requests and wait for callback notification
-
-1. Allocate a DMA slave channel
-
-   Channel allocation is slightly different in the slave DMA context,
-   client drivers typically need a channel from a particular DMA
-   controller only and even in some cases a specific channel is desired.
-   To request a channel dma_request_chan() API is used.
-
-   Interface:
-	struct dma_chan *dma_request_chan(struct device *dev, const char *name);
-
-   Which will find and return the 'name' DMA channel associated with the 'dev'
-   device. The association is done via DT, ACPI or board file based
-   dma_slave_map matching table.
-
-   A channel allocated via this interface is exclusive to the caller,
-   until dma_release_channel() is called.
-
-2. Set slave and controller specific parameters
-
-   Next step is always to pass some specific information to the DMA
-   driver. Most of the generic information which a slave DMA can use
-   is in struct dma_slave_config. This allows the clients to specify
-   DMA direction, DMA addresses, bus widths, DMA burst lengths etc
-   for the peripheral.
-
-   If some DMA controllers have more parameters to be sent then they
-   should try to embed struct dma_slave_config in their controller
-   specific structure. That gives flexibility to client to pass more
-   parameters, if required.
-
-   Interface:
-	int dmaengine_slave_config(struct dma_chan *chan,
-				  struct dma_slave_config *config)
-
-   Please see the dma_slave_config structure definition in dmaengine.h
-   for a detailed explanation of the struct members. Please note
-   that the 'direction' member will be going away as it duplicates the
-   direction given in the prepare call.
-
-3. Get a descriptor for transaction
-
-   For slave usage the various modes of slave transfers supported by the
-   DMA-engine are:
-
-   slave_sg	- DMA a list of scatter gather buffers from/to a peripheral
-   dma_cyclic	- Perform a cyclic DMA operation from/to a peripheral till the
-		  operation is explicitly stopped.
-   interleaved_dma - This is common to Slave as well as M2M clients. For slave
-		 address of devices' fifo could be already known to the driver.
-		 Various types of operations could be expressed by setting
-		 appropriate values to the 'dma_interleaved_template' members.
-
-   A non-NULL return of this transfer API represents a "descriptor" for
-   the given transaction.
-
-   Interface:
-	struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *dmaengine_prep_slave_sg(
-		struct dma_chan *chan, struct scatterlist *sgl,
-		unsigned int sg_len, enum dma_data_direction direction,
-		unsigned long flags);
-
-	struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *dmaengine_prep_dma_cyclic(
-		struct dma_chan *chan, dma_addr_t buf_addr, size_t buf_len,
-		size_t period_len, enum dma_data_direction direction);
-
-	struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *dmaengine_prep_interleaved_dma(
-		struct dma_chan *chan, struct dma_interleaved_template *xt,
-		unsigned long flags);
-
-   The peripheral driver is expected to have mapped the scatterlist for
-   the DMA operation prior to calling dmaengine_prep_slave_sg(), and must
-   keep the scatterlist mapped until the DMA operation has completed.
-   The scatterlist must be mapped using the DMA struct device.
-   If a mapping needs to be synchronized later, dma_sync_*_for_*() must be
-   called using the DMA struct device, too.
-   So, normal setup should look like this:
-
-	nr_sg = dma_map_sg(chan->device->dev, sgl, sg_len);
-	if (nr_sg == 0)
-		/* error */
-
-	desc = dmaengine_prep_slave_sg(chan, sgl, nr_sg, direction, flags);
-
-   Once a descriptor has been obtained, the callback information can be
-   added and the descriptor must then be submitted. Some DMA engine
-   drivers may hold a spinlock between a successful preparation and
-   submission so it is important that these two operations are closely
-   paired.
-
-   Note:
-	Although the async_tx API specifies that completion callback
-	routines cannot submit any new operations, this is not the
-	case for slave/cyclic DMA.
-
-	For slave DMA, the subsequent transaction may not be available
-	for submission prior to callback function being invoked, so
-	slave DMA callbacks are permitted to prepare and submit a new
-	transaction.
-
-	For cyclic DMA, a callback function may wish to terminate the
-	DMA via dmaengine_terminate_async().
-
-	Therefore, it is important that DMA engine drivers drop any
-	locks before calling the callback function which may cause a
-	deadlock.
-
-	Note that callbacks will always be invoked from the DMA
-	engines tasklet, never from interrupt context.
-
-4. Submit the transaction
-
-   Once the descriptor has been prepared and the callback information
-   added, it must be placed on the DMA engine drivers pending queue.
-
-   Interface:
-	dma_cookie_t dmaengine_submit(struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *desc)
-
-   This returns a cookie can be used to check the progress of DMA engine
-   activity via other DMA engine calls not covered in this document.
-
-   dmaengine_submit() will not start the DMA operation, it merely adds
-   it to the pending queue. For this, see step 5, dma_async_issue_pending.
-
-5. Issue pending DMA requests and wait for callback notification
-
-   The transactions in the pending queue can be activated by calling the
-   issue_pending API. If channel is idle then the first transaction in
-   queue is started and subsequent ones queued up.
-
-   On completion of each DMA operation, the next in queue is started and
-   a tasklet triggered. The tasklet will then call the client driver
-   completion callback routine for notification, if set.
-
-   Interface:
-	void dma_async_issue_pending(struct dma_chan *chan);
-
-Further APIs:
-
-1. int dmaengine_terminate_sync(struct dma_chan *chan)
-   int dmaengine_terminate_async(struct dma_chan *chan)
-   int dmaengine_terminate_all(struct dma_chan *chan) /* DEPRECATED */
-
-   This causes all activity for the DMA channel to be stopped, and may
-   discard data in the DMA FIFO which hasn't been fully transferred.
-   No callback functions will be called for any incomplete transfers.
-
-   Two variants of this function are available.
-
-   dmaengine_terminate_async() might not wait until the DMA has been fully
-   stopped or until any running complete callbacks have finished. But it is
-   possible to call dmaengine_terminate_async() from atomic context or from
-   within a complete callback. dmaengine_synchronize() must be called before it
-   is safe to free the memory accessed by the DMA transfer or free resources
-   accessed from within the complete callback.
-
-   dmaengine_terminate_sync() will wait for the transfer and any running
-   complete callbacks to finish before it returns. But the function must not be
-   called from atomic context or from within a complete callback.
-
-   dmaengine_terminate_all() is deprecated and should not be used in new code.
-
-2. int dmaengine_pause(struct dma_chan *chan)
-
-   This pauses activity on the DMA channel without data loss.
-
-3. int dmaengine_resume(struct dma_chan *chan)
-
-   Resume a previously paused DMA channel. It is invalid to resume a
-   channel which is not currently paused.
-
-4. enum dma_status dma_async_is_tx_complete(struct dma_chan *chan,
-        dma_cookie_t cookie, dma_cookie_t *last, dma_cookie_t *used)
-
-   This can be used to check the status of the channel. Please see
-   the documentation in include/linux/dmaengine.h for a more complete
-   description of this API.
-
-   This can be used in conjunction with dma_async_is_complete() and
-   the cookie returned from dmaengine_submit() to check for
-   completion of a specific DMA transaction.
-
-   Note:
-	Not all DMA engine drivers can return reliable information for
-	a running DMA channel. It is recommended that DMA engine users
-	pause or stop (via dmaengine_terminate_all()) the channel before
-	using this API.
-
-5. void dmaengine_synchronize(struct dma_chan *chan)
-
-  Synchronize the termination of the DMA channel to the current context.
-
-  This function should be used after dmaengine_terminate_async() to synchronize
-  the termination of the DMA channel to the current context. The function will
-  wait for the transfer and any running complete callbacks to finish before it
-  returns.
-
-  If dmaengine_terminate_async() is used to stop the DMA channel this function
-  must be called before it is safe to free memory accessed by previously
-  submitted descriptors or to free any resources accessed within the complete
-  callback of previously submitted descriptors.
-
-  The behavior of this function is undefined if dma_async_issue_pending() has
-  been called between dmaengine_terminate_async() and this function.