I'm currently writing a driver for a PCIe device that should send data to a Linux system using DMA. As far as I can understand my PCIe device needs a DMA controller (DMA master) and my Linux system too (DMA slave). Currently the PCIe device has no DMA controller and should not get one. That confuses me.
A. Is the following possible?
- PCIe device sends interrupt
- Wait for interrupt in the Linux driver
- Start DMA transfer from memory mapped PCIe registers to Linux system DMA.
- Read the data from memory in userspace
I have everything setup for this, the only thing I miss is how to transfer the data from the PCIe registers to the memory.
B. Which system call (or series of) do I need to call to do a DMA transfer?
C. I probably need to setup the DMA on the Linux system but what I find points to code that assumes there is a slave, e.g. struct dma_slave_config.
The use case is collecting data from the PCIe device and make it available in memory to userspace.
Any help is much appreciated. Thanks in advance!