On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 04:59:07PM -0500, J. German Rivera wrote: > Add a locking mechanism to serialize mc_send_command() calls that use > the same fsl_mc_io object (same MC portal). When the fsl_mc_io object is > created the owner needs to know in which type of context the fsl_mc_io > object is going to be used. A flag passed-in to fsl_create_mc_io() > will indicate whether the fsl_mc_io object will be used in atomic or > non-atomic context. If the fsl_mc_io object is going to be used in > non-atomic context only, mc_send_command() calls with it will be > serialized using a mutex. Otherwise, if the fsl_mc_io object is > going to be used in atomic context, mc_semd_command() calls with it > will be serialized using a spinlock. > > Signed-off-by: J. German Rivera <german.riv...@freescale.com> > Reviewed-by: Stuart Yoder <stuart.yo...@freescale.com>
My understanding is that no one actually sets FSL_MC_IO_ATOMIC_CONTEXT_PORTAL? It's hard to review patches 6 & 7 properly without users. Why don't you just wait on those until we have a use for it. regards, dan carpenter _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
