From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
To: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Cc: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn@kryo.se>, Suman Anna <s-anna@ti.com>,
Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>,
Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>,
Josh Cartwright <joshc@codeaurora.org>,
"devicetree@vger.kernel.org" <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] Documentation: dt: add common bindings for hwspinlock
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 11:35:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150211113553.GE9154@leverpostej> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK=WgbaHEbqVVBAUL1aaO3i+pPbTZM2DRB=1kSE6A6+pPmS4yQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
Sorry I've been away from this thread for a while.
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 10:29:37AM +0000, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 2:34 AM, Bjorn Andersson <bjorn@kryo.se> wrote:
> >> Yep, will do as soon as I hear from Ohad on what to do with the patch
> >> "hwspinlock/core: maintain a list of registered hwspinlock banks" that I
> >> dropped from v7. Without that and dropping hwlock-base-id, I can't get
> >> the translations done.
> >>
> >
> > My suggestion is to replace the global id-tree with a list of hwlocks
> > and iterate over these if we ever get more than one driver registered.
> > As long as #hwlock-drivers < log(#total-hwlocks) this should be
> > faster.
> >
> > I would however argue that clients that would notice any kind of
> > difference are using the API incorrectly.
> >
> > Unfortunately this is a somewhat larger change than just slapping DT
> > support on the framework :/
>
> I suspect we want to wait with framework changes until there's a real
> hardware use case justifying them.
>
> With regard to DT, however, we obviously do want to be prepared for
> multiple hwlock blocks even if they do not exist today.
>
> So how about adopting an approach where:
> - DT fully supports multi hwlock blocks (i.e. no global id field)
> - Framework left mostly unchanged at the moment. This means issuing an
> explicit error in case a secondary hwlock block shows up, and then
> hwlock id could trivially be the lock index.
>
> If multi hwlock hardware use case, or some new hwlock id translation
> requirements, do show up in the future, it's always easy to add
> framework support for it. At that point we'll know better what the
> requirements are, and framework changes would be justifiable.
As mentioned in my other reply I think we need to be explicit now when
defining the set of hwlocks (and their namming/numbering) shared between
a given set of processors, as we do with other resources
(GPIOs/regulators/whatever).
We also need to be explicit in describing the set of actors which use
those locks.
I think my previous proposal covered both of those.
Thanks,
Mark.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-11 11:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-14 20:58 [PATCH v7 0/4] hwspinlock core & omap dt support Suman Anna
2015-01-14 20:58 ` [PATCH v7 1/4] Documentation: dt: add common bindings for hwspinlock Suman Anna
2015-01-15 13:52 ` Mark Rutland
2015-01-15 13:55 ` Mark Rutland
2015-01-15 14:42 ` Rob Herring
2015-01-15 20:16 ` Suman Anna
2015-01-16 6:09 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2015-01-16 10:17 ` Mark Rutland
2015-01-17 0:46 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2015-01-20 18:05 ` Tony Lindgren
2015-01-21 12:41 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2015-01-21 17:56 ` Suman Anna
2015-01-22 18:56 ` Mark Rutland
2015-01-29 3:58 ` Suman Anna
2015-02-11 11:29 ` Mark Rutland
2015-02-16 18:06 ` Bjorn Andersson
2015-01-30 23:29 ` Bjorn Andersson
2015-01-31 5:41 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2015-02-01 11:00 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2015-02-02 21:14 ` Suman Anna
2015-02-01 17:55 ` Bjorn Andersson
2015-02-02 21:07 ` Suman Anna
2015-02-05 23:01 ` Bjorn Andersson
2015-02-06 0:11 ` Suman Anna
2015-02-06 0:34 ` Bjorn Andersson
2015-02-11 10:29 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2015-02-11 11:35 ` Mark Rutland [this message]
2015-02-16 20:30 ` Bjorn Andersson
2015-01-16 10:19 ` Mark Rutland
2015-01-16 17:49 ` Suman Anna
2015-01-14 20:58 ` [PATCH v7 2/4] Documentation: dt: add the omap hwspinlock bindings document Suman Anna
2015-01-14 20:58 ` [PATCH v7 3/4] hwspinlock/core: add common OF helpers Suman Anna
2015-01-14 20:58 ` [PATCH v7 4/4] hwspinlock/omap: add support for dt nodes Suman Anna
2015-01-15 10:13 ` [PATCH v7 0/4] hwspinlock core & omap dt support Ohad Ben-Cohen
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