From: Samuel Holland <samuel@sholland.org>
To: Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar@gmail.com>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>, Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>,
Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>,
Ondrej Jirman <megous@megous.com>,
Vasily Khoruzhick <anarsoul@gmail.com>,
Devicetree List <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-sunxi@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 2/6] mailbox: sun6i-msgbox: Add a new mailbox driver
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 21:48:47 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <89168ba0-a8ac-b433-3f93-412b22a9bc1a@sholland.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <72dc2074-c06d-4bdf-ca5f-b4007f492407@sholland.org>
On 2/12/20 8:18 PM, Samuel Holland wrote:
> Jassi,
>
> On 2/12/20 8:02 PM, Jassi Brar wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 11:18 PM Samuel Holland <samuel@sholland.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> +static int sun6i_msgbox_send_data(struct mbox_chan *chan, void *data)
>>> +{
>>> + struct sun6i_msgbox *mbox = to_sun6i_msgbox(chan);
>>> + int n = channel_number(chan);
>>> + uint32_t msg = *(uint32_t *)data;
>>> +
>>> + /* Using a channel backwards gets the hardware into a bad state. */
>>> + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!(readl(mbox->regs + CTRL_REG(n)) & CTRL_TX(n))))
>>> + return 0;
>>> +
>>> + /* We cannot post a new message if the FIFO is full. */
>>> + if (readl(mbox->regs + FIFO_STAT_REG(n)) & FIFO_STAT_MASK) {
>>> + mbox_dbg(mbox, "Channel %d busy sending 0x%08x\n", n, msg);
>>> + return -EBUSY;
>>> + }
>>> +
>> This check should go into sun6i_msgbox_last_tx_done().
>> send_data() assumes all is clear to send next packet.
>
> sun6i_msgbox_last_tx_done() already checks that the FIFO is completely empty (as
> the big comment explains). So this error could only be hit in the knows_txdone
> == true case, if the client pipelines multiple messages by calling
> mbox_client_txdone() before the message is actually removed from the FIFO.
>
> From the comments in mailbox_controller.h, this kind of usage looks to be
> unsupported. In that case, I could remove the check entirely. Does that sound right?
After more thought, I would prefer to keep the check. It is fast/simple, and it
keeps the hardware from getting into an inconsistent state. Silently dropping
messages sounds like a poor quality of implementation.
send_data() is documented in mailbox_controller.h as returning EBUSY, and I see
multiple other mailbox controllers implementing the same or a similar check. If
that is not the way you intend for the API to work, then please update the
comments in mailbox_controller.h.
Thanks,
Samuel
>> .....
>>> +
>>> + mbox->controller.dev = dev;
>>> + mbox->controller.ops = &sun6i_msgbox_chan_ops;
>>> + mbox->controller.chans = chans;
>>> + mbox->controller.num_chans = NUM_CHANS;
>>> + mbox->controller.txdone_irq = false;
>>> + mbox->controller.txdone_poll = true;
>>> + mbox->controller.txpoll_period = 5;
>>> +
>> nit: just a single space should do too.
>>
>> Sorry, for some reason I thought I had replied to this patch, but
>> apparently not. My mistake. Do you want to revise this submission or
>> send another patch on top?
>
> For just this change, it would be simpler to send a follow-up patch.
>
>> thanks
>
> Thank you,
> Samuel
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-15 3:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-13 5:18 [PATCH v6 0/6] Allwinner sun6i message box support Samuel Holland
2020-01-13 5:18 ` [PATCH v6 1/6] dt-bindings: mailbox: Add a sun6i message box binding Samuel Holland
2020-01-13 9:30 ` Maxime Ripard
2020-01-13 22:38 ` Rob Herring
2020-01-13 5:18 ` [PATCH v6 2/6] mailbox: sun6i-msgbox: Add a new mailbox driver Samuel Holland
2020-01-13 9:15 ` Philipp Zabel
2020-02-13 2:02 ` Jassi Brar
2020-02-13 2:18 ` Samuel Holland
2020-02-15 3:48 ` Samuel Holland [this message]
2020-02-15 4:47 ` Jassi Brar
2020-02-15 6:19 ` [PATCH] mailbox: sun6i-msgbox: Remove unneeded FIFO status check Samuel Holland
2020-01-13 5:18 ` [PATCH v6 3/6] ARM: dts: sunxi: a83t: Add msgbox node Samuel Holland
2020-01-13 5:18 ` [PATCH v6 4/6] ARM: dts: sunxi: h3/h5: " Samuel Holland
2020-01-13 5:18 ` [PATCH v6 5/6] arm64: dts: allwinner: a64: " Samuel Holland
2020-01-13 5:18 ` [PATCH v6 6/6] arm64: dts: allwinner: h6: " Samuel Holland
2020-02-13 1:43 ` [PATCH v6 0/6] Allwinner sun6i message box support Samuel Holland
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