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SubjectRe: [PATCH v10] iopoll: Introduce memory-mapped IO polling macros
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 07:42:53PM +0000, Mitchel Humpherys wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16 2014 at 01:45:27 AM, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:47:23PM +0000, Mitchel Humpherys wrote:
> >> From: Matt Wagantall <mattw@codeaurora.org>
> >>
> >> It is sometimes necessary to poll a memory-mapped register until its value
> >> satisfies some condition. Introduce a family of convenience macros that do
> >> this. Tight-looping, sleeping, and timing out can all be accomplished using
> >> these macros.
> >>
> >> Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
> >> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> >> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> >> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> >> Cc: Robert Elliott <elliott@hp.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Matt Wagantall <mattw@codeaurora.org>
> >> Signed-off-by: Mitchel Humpherys <mitchelh@codeaurora.org>
> >> ---
> >> v9..10:
> >> - Actually added the comments mentioned in v8..v9 (doh!)
> >>
> >> v8..v9:
> >> - Added note in comments about max sleep time (Rob Elliott)
> >>
> >> v7..v8:
> >> - sorted helper macros by size (b, w, l, q)
> >> - removed some of the more esoteric (or flat-out bogus) helper macros
> >>
> >> This patch was originally part of a series [1] for adding support for IOMMU
> >> address translations through an ARM SMMU hardware register. The other
> >> patch in the series (the one that actually uses these macros and implements
> >> said hardware address translations) was Ack'd by the driver maintainer
> >> there (Will Deacon) so I've pulled this patch out to avoid resending an
> >> already Ack'd patch over and over again.
> >>
> >> In short, please see [1] for previous discussion and the first user of
> >> these macros.
> >>
> >> Will also acked this patch in [2]. I didn't retain his Ack here because I
> >> added to the macro comments.
> >
> > You can keep the ack, it still looks good to me and I'm not really fussed
> > about the comments.
> >
> > Will
>
> This hasn't gotten any further comments. Would someone be willing to
> take it?

If you get an Ack from any of Arnd/Joerg/akpm then I'm happy to take it via
the arm-smmu pull (along with the patch making use of it).

Joerg, would you be ok with that?

Will

> Joerg, maybe you could take this through the IOMMU tree since the first
> user is an IOMMU driver? Currently we can't move [1] forward because of
> this dependency...
>
> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.iommu/7837
>
>
> -Mitch
>
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