Re: [PATCH v3 07/12] soc: aspeed: xdma: Add user interface

[Andrew Jeffery]

On Fri, 20 Dec 2019, at 02:30, Eddie James wrote:
> 
> On 12/18/19 7:19 PM, Andrew Jeffery wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 19 Dec 2019, at 01:39, Eddie James wrote:
> >> +			mutex_unlock(&ctx->file_lock);
> >> +			return -EBUSY;
> >> +		}
> >> +	} else {
> >> +		mutex_lock(&ctx->file_lock);
> >> +
> >> +		rc = wait_event_interruptible(ctx->wait, !ctx->current_client);
> >> +		if (rc) {
> >> +			mutex_unlock(&ctx->file_lock);
> >> +			return -EINTR;
> >> +		}
> >> +	}
> >> +
> >> +	aspeed_xdma_start(ctx, &op, client->phys, client);
> >> +
> >> +	mutex_unlock(&ctx->file_lock);
> > Shouldn't we lift start_lock out of aspeed_xdma_start() use that here
> > instead of file_lock? I think that would mean that we could remove
> > file_lock.
> 
> 
> That wouldn't work with the reset though. The reset should hold 
> start_lock as well, but if a client is waiting here with start_lock, 
> we'd never get to the reset if the transfer doesn't complete. I think 
> file_lock is necessary.

Hmm, let me think about this some more.

Andrew