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  PXA/MMP - DMA Slave controller
  ==============================
  
  Constraints
  -----------
    a) Transfers hot queuing
       A driver submitting a transfer and issuing it should be granted the transfer
       is queued even on a running DMA channel.
       This implies that the queuing doesn't wait for the previous transfer end,
       and that the descriptor chaining is not only done in the irq/tasklet code
       triggered by the end of the transfer.
       A transfer which is submitted and issued on a phy doesn't wait for a phy to
       stop and restart, but is submitted on a "running channel". The other
       drivers, especially mmp_pdma waited for the phy to stop before relaunching
       a new transfer.
  
    b) All transfers having asked for confirmation should be signaled
       Any issued transfer with DMA_PREP_INTERRUPT should trigger a callback call.
       This implies that even if an irq/tasklet is triggered by end of tx1, but
       at the time of irq/dma tx2 is already finished, tx1->complete() and
       tx2->complete() should be called.
  
    c) Channel running state
       A driver should be able to query if a channel is running or not. For the
       multimedia case, such as video capture, if a transfer is submitted and then
       a check of the DMA channel reports a "stopped channel", the transfer should
       not be issued until the next "start of frame interrupt", hence the need to
       know if a channel is in running or stopped state.
  
    d) Bandwidth guarantee
       The PXA architecture has 4 levels of DMAs priorities : high, normal, low.
       The high prorities get twice as much bandwidth as the normal, which get twice
       as much as the low priorities.
       A driver should be able to request a priority, especially the real-time
       ones such as pxa_camera with (big) throughputs.
  
  Design
  ------
    a) Virtual channels
       Same concept as in sa11x0 driver, ie. a driver was assigned a "virtual
       channel" linked to the requestor line, and the physical DMA channel is
       assigned on the fly when the transfer is issued.
  
    b) Transfer anatomy for a scatter-gather transfer
       +------------+-----+---------------+----------------+-----------------+
       | desc-sg[0] | ... | desc-sg[last] | status updater | finisher/linker |
       +------------+-----+---------------+----------------+-----------------+
  
       This structure is pointed by dma->sg_cpu.
       The descriptors are used as follows :
        - desc-sg[i]: i-th descriptor, transferring the i-th sg
          element to the video buffer scatter gather
        - status updater
          Transfers a single u32 to a well known dma coherent memory to leave
          a trace that this transfer is done. The "well known" is unique per
          physical channel, meaning that a read of this value will tell which
          is the last finished transfer at that point in time.
        - finisher: has ddadr=DADDR_STOP, dcmd=ENDIRQEN
        - linker: has ddadr= desc-sg[0] of next transfer, dcmd=0
  
    c) Transfers hot-chaining
       Suppose the running chain is :
           Buffer 1         Buffer 2
       +---------+----+---+  +----+----+----+---+
       | d0 | .. | dN | l |  | d0 | .. | dN | f |
       +---------+----+-|-+  ^----+----+----+---+
                        |    |
                        +----+
  
       After a call to dmaengine_submit(b3), the chain will look like :
            Buffer 1              Buffer 2             Buffer 3
       +---------+----+---+  +----+----+----+---+  +----+----+----+---+
       | d0 | .. | dN | l |  | d0 | .. | dN | l |  | d0 | .. | dN | f |
       +---------+----+-|-+  ^----+----+----+-|-+  ^----+----+----+---+
                        |    |                |    |
                        +----+                +----+
                                             new_link
  
       If while new_link was created the DMA channel stopped, it is _not_
       restarted. Hot-chaining doesn't break the assumption that
       dma_async_issue_pending() is to be used to ensure the transfer is actually started.
  
       One exception to this rule :
         - if Buffer1 and Buffer2 had all their addresses 8 bytes aligned
         - and if Buffer3 has at least one address not 4 bytes aligned
         - then hot-chaining cannot happen, as the channel must be stopped, the
           "align bit" must be set, and the channel restarted As a consequence,
           such a transfer tx_submit() will be queued on the submitted queue, and
           this specific case if the DMA is already running in aligned mode.
  
    d) Transfers completion updater
       Each time a transfer is completed on a channel, an interrupt might be
       generated or not, up to the client's request. But in each case, the last
       descriptor of a transfer, the "status updater", will write the latest
       transfer being completed into the physical channel's completion mark.
  
       This will speed up residue calculation, for large transfers such as video
       buffers which hold around 6k descriptors or more. This also allows without
       any lock to find out what is the latest completed transfer in a running
       DMA chain.
  
    e) Transfers completion, irq and tasklet
       When a transfer flagged as "DMA_PREP_INTERRUPT" is finished, the dma irq
       is raised. Upon this interrupt, a tasklet is scheduled for the physical
       channel.
       The tasklet is responsible for :
        - reading the physical channel last updater mark
        - calling all the transfer callbacks of finished transfers, based on
          that mark, and each transfer flags.
       If a transfer is completed while this handling is done, a dma irq will
       be raised, and the tasklet will be scheduled once again, having a new
       updater mark.
  
    f) Residue
       Residue granularity will be descriptor based. The issued but not completed
       transfers will be scanned for all of their descriptors against the
       currently running descriptor.
  
    g) Most complicated case of driver's tx queues
       The most tricky situation is when :
         - there are not "acked" transfers (tx0)
         - a driver submitted an aligned tx1, not chained
         - a driver submitted an aligned tx2 => tx2 is cold chained to tx1
         - a driver issued tx1+tx2 => channel is running in aligned mode
         - a driver submitted an aligned tx3 => tx3 is hot-chained
         - a driver submitted an unaligned tx4 => tx4 is put in submitted queue,
           not chained
         - a driver issued tx4 => tx4 is put in issued queue, not chained
         - a driver submitted an aligned tx5 => tx5 is put in submitted queue, not
           chained
         - a driver submitted an aligned tx6 => tx6 is put in submitted queue,
           cold chained to tx5
  
       This translates into (after tx4 is issued) :
         - issued queue
       +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+
       | tx1 | | tx2 | | tx3 | | tx4 |
       +---|-+ ^---|-+ ^-----+ +-----+
           |   |   |   |
           +---+   +---+
         - submitted queue
       +-----+ +-----+
       | tx5 | | tx6 |
       +---|-+ ^-----+
           |   |
           +---+
         - completed queue : empty
         - allocated queue : tx0
  
       It should be noted that after tx3 is completed, the channel is stopped, and
       restarted in "unaligned mode" to handle tx4.
  
  Author: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>