From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
To: Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Mark Gross" <mgross@linux.intel.com>,
"Andy Shevchenko" <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>,
"Barnabás Pőcze" <pobrn@protonmail.com>,
"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Rob Herring" <robh@kernel.org>,
"Jiri Slaby" <jirislaby@kernel.org>,
"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
"Len Brown" <lenb@kernel.org>, "Blaž Hrastnik" <blaz@mxxn.io>,
"Dorian Stoll" <dorian.stoll@tmsp.io>,
platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/9] platform/surface: Add Surface Aggregator subsystem
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 15:43:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9748d778-b5e9-c80c-5968-a77b3203d769@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ac50a0c7-806e-d949-6440-620ec966099a@gmail.com>
Hi,
On 12/8/20 3:37 PM, Maximilian Luz wrote:
<snip>
>>> +
>>> + obj = acpi_evaluate_dsm_typed(handle, &SSAM_SSH_DSM_GUID,
>>> + SSAM_SSH_DSM_REVISION, func, NULL,
>>> + ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER);
>>> + if (!obj)
>>> + return -EIO;
>>> +
>>> + val = obj->integer.value;
>>> + ACPI_FREE(obj);
>>> +
>>> + if (val > U32_MAX)
>>> + return -ERANGE;
>>> +
>>> + *ret = val;
>>> + return 0;
>>> +}
>
> [...]
>
>>> +/**
>>> + * ssam_controller_start() - Start the receiver and transmitter threads of the
>>> + * controller.
>>> + * @ctrl: The controller.
>>> + *
>>> + * Note: When this function is called, the controller should be properly
>>> + * hooked up to the serdev core via &struct serdev_device_ops. Please refer
>>> + * to ssam_controller_init() for more details on controller initialization.
>>> + *
>>> + * This function must be called from an exclusive context with regards to the
>>> + * state, if necessary, by locking the controller via ssam_controller_lock().
>>
>> Again you are being a bit hand-wavy (I assume you know what I mean by that)
>> wrt the locking requirements. If possible I would prefer clearly spelled out
>> locking requirements in the form of "this and that lock must be held when
>> calling this function". Preferably backed-up by lockdep_assert-s asserting
>> these conditions.
>
> The reason for this is that this function specifically is currently only
> called during initialization, when the controller has not been published
> yet, i.e. when we have an exclusive reference to the controller.
>
> I'll change this to fully enforce locking (with lockdep_assert).
>
>> And maybe if you are a bit stricter with always holding the lock when
>> calling this, you can also drop the WRITE_ONCE and the comment about it
>> (in all places where you do this).
>
> The WRITE_ONCE is only there to ensure that the basic test in
> ssam_request_sync_submit() can be done. I always try to be explicit
> about access that can happen without the respective locks being held.
Yes I saw the matching READ_ONCE later on (as the comment indicated
I would), which made it more obvious to me why the WRITE_ONCE is here,'
so maybe I should have gone back and updated this comment.
Anyways, keeping the WRITE_ONCE + READ_ONCE for this is fine.
> Unfortunately it's not feasible to hold the reader lock in
> ssam_request_sync_submit() due to reentrancy. Specifically, as the lock,
> if at all (i.e. if this is not a client driver bound to the controller),
> must be held not only during submission but until the request has been
> completed. Note that if we would hold the lock during submission, this
> is just a smoke-test.
Ack.
<more snip>
Regards,
Hans
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-08 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-03 21:26 [PATCH v2 0/9] Add support for Microsoft Surface System Aggregator Module Maximilian Luz
2020-12-03 21:26 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] platform/surface: Add Surface Aggregator subsystem Maximilian Luz
2020-12-08 13:01 ` Hans de Goede
2020-12-08 14:37 ` Maximilian Luz
2020-12-08 14:43 ` Hans de Goede [this message]
2020-12-08 14:54 ` Maximilian Luz
2020-12-03 21:26 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] platform/surface: aggregator: Add control packet allocation caching Maximilian Luz
2020-12-15 13:42 ` Hans de Goede
2020-12-03 21:26 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] platform/surface: aggregator: Add event item " Maximilian Luz
2020-12-15 13:44 ` Hans de Goede
2020-12-03 21:26 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] platform/surface: aggregator: Add trace points Maximilian Luz
2020-12-15 14:20 ` Hans de Goede
2020-12-03 21:26 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] platform/surface: aggregator: Add error injection capabilities Maximilian Luz
2020-12-15 14:43 ` Hans de Goede
2020-12-03 21:26 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] platform/surface: aggregator: Add dedicated bus and device type Maximilian Luz
2020-12-15 14:49 ` Hans de Goede
2020-12-15 14:50 ` Hans de Goede
2020-12-03 21:26 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] docs: driver-api: Add Surface Aggregator subsystem documentation Maximilian Luz
2020-12-15 16:25 ` Hans de Goede
2020-12-03 21:26 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] platform/surface: Add Surface Aggregator user-space interface Maximilian Luz
2020-12-15 16:35 ` Hans de Goede
2020-12-15 20:00 ` Maximilian Luz
2020-12-03 21:26 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] platform/surface: Add Surface ACPI Notify driver Maximilian Luz
2020-12-15 17:18 ` Hans de Goede
2020-12-06 7:07 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] Add support for Microsoft Surface System Aggregator Module Leon Romanovsky
2020-12-06 8:32 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-12-06 8:35 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-12-06 11:13 ` Maximilian Luz
2020-12-06 8:41 ` Hans de Goede
2020-12-06 8:56 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-12-06 10:04 ` Hans de Goede
2020-12-06 10:33 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-12-06 10:41 ` Hans de Goede
2020-12-06 11:41 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-12-06 13:43 ` Maximilian Luz
2020-12-06 10:51 ` Maximilian Luz
2020-12-06 8:58 ` Blaž Hrastnik
2020-12-06 9:06 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-12-06 10:33 ` Maximilian Luz
2020-12-06 10:43 ` Hans de Goede
2020-12-06 10:56 ` Maximilian Luz
2020-12-06 11:30 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-12-06 13:27 ` Maximilian Luz
2020-12-06 15:58 ` Maximilian Luz
2020-12-07 6:15 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-12-07 8:49 ` Hans de Goede
2020-12-07 9:12 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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