Re: UIO driver multi-instance issue discussion

[Raymond Wu]

Hi guys,

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> I'm not sure who is the maintainer for UIO driver. Please help if you know something. Thanks in advance!
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> Recently, we have some trouble when using UIO as our VPU driver.
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> Issue description:
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> ·         This issue comes from the so called "multi-instance case". This means that for one H/W device, it can be opened multiple times.
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> ·         Each instance will be assigned with a FD(file descriptor) and its own uio_listener.
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> ·         After one H/W interrupt comes, the global uio_device.event has been +1 ( See atomic_inc(&idev->event); ) while all other instance’s uio_listener->event_count is not +1.
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> ·         So, if we have 1+ instances waiting for interrupt, all of them will be woken up because listener->event_count != event_count.
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> Solution:
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> ·         Export uio_device definition to uio.h or uio_driver.h, so that we can sync the event_count for all instances in the private driver.
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> ·         Add new uio_sync_event(struct file *filep) function in uio.c, so that we can call it directly when we want to sync the event count.
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> Please advise which one is recommended or you can propose a new one. We have a plan to submit a patch to open source community to improve it.
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> BTW, personally, I’m curious that why you put the uio_device definition within uio.c, is there any special reason for it?
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> Thanks,
> Raymond
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