Re: [RFC PATCH 00/12] iio: core,buffer: add support for multiple IIO buffers per IIO device

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 18:23:28 +0200
Alexandru Ardelean <alexandru.ardelean@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Continuing from:
>   https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iio/20200517144023.6c5cb169@archlinux/
> 
> This is a V2 of the initial attempt in the discussion above.
> But it did not occur to me that I should mark it as V2 when I generated
> the patches.
> I've only tested [so far] that the current IIO buffer mechnism still works.
> And decided to show this sketch patchset.
> 
> This requires the ioctl() centralization mechanism, for which I sent a
> fix earlier.
>   https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iio/CA+U=Dsqf3UgyM666Gg9EmehpWiucDx2P0bmsC9JR--JJDT_eWQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#t
>   https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iio/20201117095154.7189-1-alexandru.ardelean@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#u
> 
> The gist of this is that now, the first IIO buffer should work as
> before, but all extra buffers should go through the anon inodes
> mechanism.
> I'd need to find a device or a way or a chip to test these extra buffers
> stuff. But I'm confident that this current form should eventually work
> with multiple IIO buffers per 1 IIO device and with anon inodes.
> 
> Maybe I'll take some of the patches in this set separately and send them
> individually. The problem with patchsets like this that tackle changes
> in a framework (like IIO) is that I become unsure after the 5th-7th patch,
> that the approach is correct. And I get even more unsure after that.
> 
> I'll create some userspace code to test this a bit, but I thought I'd
> send an RFC in the meantime.

From a first read, with all the warnings you give above, this looks pretty
good to me.   The kobj stuff is a little nasty and needs more docs
but other than that it all looks quite pleasant and readable and was
roughly what I was expecting from earlier discussions (which is great!).

Good work on this, looking forward to next steps.

Jonathan

> 
> Alexandru Ardelean (12):
>   iio: core: register chardev only if needed
>   iio: buffer: add back-ref from iio_buffer to iio_dev
>   iio: buffer: rework buffer & scan_elements dir creation
>   iio: buffer: add index to the first IIO buffer dir and symlink it back
>   iio: core: split __iio_device_attr_init() to init only the attr object
>   iio: buffer: re-route scan_elements via it's kobj_type
>   iio: buffer: re-route core buffer attributes via it's new kobj_type
>   iio: buffer: add helper to get the IIO device to which a buffer
>     belongs
>   iio: re-route all buffer attributes through new buffer kobj_type
>   iio: core: wrap iio device & buffer into struct for character devices
>   iio: buffer: introduce support for attaching more IIO buffers
>   iio: buffer: add ioctl() to support opening extra buffers for IIO
>     device
> 
>  drivers/iio/accel/adxl372.c                   |  36 +-
>  drivers/iio/accel/bmc150-accel-core.c         |  34 +-
>  drivers/iio/adc/at91-sama5d2_adc.c            |  30 +-
>  .../buffer/industrialio-buffer-dmaengine.c    |  13 +-
>  .../cros_ec_sensors/cros_ec_sensors_core.c    |  30 +-
>  .../common/hid-sensors/hid-sensor-trigger.c   |  32 +-
>  drivers/iio/iio_core.h                        |  11 +
>  drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c             | 582 ++++++++++++++----
>  drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c               | 117 ++--
>  include/linux/iio/buffer.h                    |   2 +
>  include/linux/iio/buffer_impl.h               |  25 +-
>  include/linux/iio/iio-opaque.h                |   6 +
>  include/linux/iio/iio.h                       |   2 +-
>  include/linux/iio/sysfs.h                     |  50 ++
>  include/uapi/linux/iio/buffer.h               |  16 +
>  15 files changed, 735 insertions(+), 251 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/iio/buffer.h
>