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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 09/10] drivers: qcom: rpmh: add support for batch RPMH request
Hi Lina,

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 9:04 AM, Lina Iyer <ilina@codeaurora.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 21 2018 at 23:25 +0000, Evan Green wrote:
>>
>> Hello Lina,
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 9:35 AM, Lina Iyer <ilina@codeaurora.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Platform drivers need make a lot of resource state requests at the same
>>> time, say, at the start or end of an usecase. It can be quite
>>> inefficient to send each request separately. Instead they can give the
>>> RPMH library a batch of requests to be sent and wait on the whole
>>> transaction to be complete.
>>>
>>> rpmh_write_batch() is a blocking call that can be used to send multiple
>>> RPMH command sets. Each RPMH command set is set asynchronously and the
>>> API blocks until all the command sets are complete and receive their
>>> tx_done callbacks.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Lina Iyer <ilina@codeaurora.org>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/soc/qcom/rpmh.c | 150
>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> include/soc/qcom/rpmh.h | 8 +++
>>> 2 files changed, 158 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/soc/qcom/rpmh.c b/drivers/soc/qcom/rpmh.c
>>> index dff4c46be3af..6f60bb9a4dfa 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/soc/qcom/rpmh.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/soc/qcom/rpmh.c
>>
>> [...]
>>>
>>> @@ -394,6 +537,11 @@ int rpmh_flush(struct rpmh_client *rc)
>>> }
>>> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rpm->lock, flags);
>>>
>>> + /* First flush the cached batch requests */
>>> + ret = flush_batch(rc);
>>> + if (ret)
>>> + return ret;
>>> +
>>> /*
>>> * Nobody else should be calling this function other than system
>>> PM,,
>>> * hence we can run without locks.
>
> This comment and the comment in the header of this function.
>
>>> @@ -438,6 +586,8 @@ int rpmh_invalidate(struct rpmh_client *rc)
>>> if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(rc))
>>> return -EINVAL;
>>>
>>> + invalidate_batch(rc);
>>> +
>>
>>
>> Similarly to my comments in patch 7, aren't there races here with
>> adding new elements? After flush_batch, but before invalidate_batch,
>> somebody could call cache_batch, which would add new things on the end
>> of the array. These new items would be clobbered by invalidate_batch,
>> without having been flushed first.
>>
> Flush is a system PM function and is not called by drivers and is not
> expected to run conncurrently with other threads using the RPMH library.

My comment above was a little off because I was reading those two
hunks (flush_batch and invalidate_batch) as being in the same
function. They're not.

I'm okay with the locking here, though you could remove the locking
from flush_batch, since that's only run in single-threaded PM
contexts.

>
> Thanks,
> Lina
>

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