Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754500AbbGBUai (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2015 16:30:38 -0400 Received: from mail-pd0-f174.google.com ([209.85.192.174]:33899 "EHLO mail-pd0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754367AbbGBUab (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2015 16:30:31 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 14:30:28 -0600 From: Lina Iyer To: Ohad Ben-Cohen Cc: Bjorn Andersson , Jeffrey Hugo , "linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2 0/2] hwspinlock: Introduce raw capability for hwspinlock_device Message-ID: <20150702203028.GA4711@linaro.org> References: <1433867020-7746-1-git-send-email-lina.iyer@linaro.org> <20150627030514.GA893@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2352 Lines: 51 On Sat, Jun 27 2015 at 05:25 -0600, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote: >Hi Lina, > >On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 6:05 AM, Lina Iyer wrote: >> Hi Ohad, >> >> Any comments? > >Sorry, I was under the impression the discussion with Bjorn is still open. > I am of the opinion that the platform driver and the framework should handle this request. This variation is still within the bounds of proper usage of the hw remote lock. hwspinlock frameowkr imposes a s/w spinlock around access to every hw remote lock and the current QCOM platform driver assumes that the value written into the hardware, has to be a constant. Both of these are assumptions are the limitations in Linux and is not a hw remote lock behavior. I do not agree that the cpuidle driver has to memory map a hwspinlock region and treat it as a register write, because we dont want to complicate the hwspinlock platform driver. >Like Bjorn, I'm not so sure too we want to bind a specific lock to the >RAW capability since this is not a lock-specific hardware detail. > You are right, RAW capability is not lock specific. But we dont want to impose this on every lock in the bank either. Drivers rely on the framework's s/w spinlock to ensure that different processes in Linux, trying to lock the same hwspinlock may correctly acquire. The framework shall guarantee that the hwspinlock is correctly acquired for regular usecases (where a constant value is written to the h/w t olock). The RAW capability assumes that the driver acquiring the RAW lock, knows that the platform will write a unique value to the h/w and therefore the correctness of locking is assured by the h/w. >As far as I can see, the hardware-specific differences (if any) are at >the vendor level and not at the lock level, therefore it might make >more sense to add the caps member to hwspinlock_device rather than to >the hwspinlock struct (Jeffrey commented about this too). > Jeff's comment is about my commit text pointing to the wrong structure. I believe he is fine with the implementation. We debated this idea, before I came up with this patch. Thanks, Lina -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/