Re: [PATCH 1/2] ux500: Adding support for u8500 Hsem functionality V2

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Tue Apr 12 2011 - 13:46:15 EST


On Monday 11 April 2011, mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Mathieu J. Poirier <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This is the second spin on STE's Hsem driver that is implemented
> through the hwspinlock scheme. More specifically:
>
> More comments have been added in the code.
> Cleanup of included header files.
> One of the original contributor's name corrected.
> Calls to 'pm_runtime_disable'restored.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks very nice overall, just a few small details I noticed:

> +
> +#define HSEM_REGISTER_OFFSET 0x08
> +
> +#define HSEM_CTRL_REG 0x00
> +#define HSEM_ICRALL 0x90
> +#define HSEM_PROTOCOL_1 0x01
> +
> +#define to_u8500_hsem(lock) \
> + container_of(lock, struct u8500_hsem, lock)
> +
> +struct u8500_hsem {
> + struct hwspinlock lock;
> + void __iomem *addr;
> +};

It seems inconsistent to name it sem instead of spinlock.

> +struct u8500_hsem_state {
> + void __iomem *io_base; /* Mapped base address */
> +};

If you make that one data structure, you only need a single allocation:

struct u8500_hsem_state {
void __iomem *io_base;
struct u8500_hsem hsem[U8500_MAX_SEMAPHORE];
}

> +
> + for (i = 0; i < U8500_MAX_SEMAPHORE; i++) {
> + u8500_lock = kzalloc(sizeof(*u8500_lock), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!u8500_lock) {
> + ret = -ENOMEM;
> + goto free_locks;
> + }
> +
> + u8500_lock->lock.dev = &pdev->dev;
> + u8500_lock->lock.owner = THIS_MODULE;
> + u8500_lock->lock.id = i;
> + u8500_lock->lock.ops = &u8500_hwspinlock_ops;
> + u8500_lock->addr = io_base + offset + sizeof(u32) * i;
> +
> + ret = hwspin_lock_register(&u8500_lock->lock);
> + if (ret) {
> + kfree(u8500_lock);
> + goto free_locks;
> + }
> + }

When you do that, this can be a single allocation.

Thinking about it some more, it may actually be worthwhile to still improve
the API here: I think the owner field should be part of the operations structure,
because it is constant. It would also be nice to have a "private" pointer
in struct hwspinlock, so you don't need to wrap it if you don't want to.

Finally, the hwspin_lock_register could take the specific values as arguments
instead of requiring you to fill it out first.

Arnd
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