Re: [PATCH 1/7] platform/x86: fujitsu-laptop: do not use kfifo for storing hotkey scancodes

[Darren Hart]

On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 02:25:46AM +0200, Rafael Wysocki wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 21, 2017 11:15:43 AM Darren Hart wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 06:40:52AM +0200, MichaÅ KÄpieÅ wrote:
> > > All ACPI device notify callbacks are invoked using acpi_os_execute(),
> > > which causes the supplied callback to be queued to a static workqueue
> > > which always executes on CPU 0.  This means that there is no possibility
> > > for any ACPI device notify callback to be concurrently executed on
> > > multiple CPUs, which in the case of fujitsu-laptop means that using a
> > > locked kfifo for handling hotkeys is redundant: as hotkey scancodes are
> > > only pushed and popped from within acpi_fujitsu_laptop_notify(), no risk
> > > of concurrent pushing and popping exists.
> > 
> > Was the kfifo causing a problem currently or for the migration to separate
> > modules? Is this purely a simplification?
> > 
> > Rafael, the above rationale appears sound to me. Do you have any concerns?
> 
> I actually do.
> 
> While this is the case today, making the driver code depend on it in a hard way
> sort of makes it difficult to change in the future if need be.

OK, if we aren't guaranteed for this to run on CPU 0 in the future, and this
will be annoying to debug if it does changes, let's skip the kfifo change.

I have removed this patch, and fixed up the merge conflicts of the remaining 6
patches here:

http://git.infradead.org/linux-platform-drivers-x86.git/shortlog/refs/heads/fujitsu

Michal / Jonathan, would you please review and let me know if this is what you
would have done / approve the rebase?

Thanks,

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Darren Hart
VMware Open Source Technology Center