[RFC 4/7] soc: qcom: Add Shared Memory Manager driver

Bjorn Andersson bjorn.andersson at sonymobile.com
Mon Oct 27 17:34:26 PDT 2014


On Wed 08 Oct 14:33 PDT 2014, Jeffrey Hugo wrote:

[..]
> > + */
> > +struct smem_header {
> > +     struct smem_proc_comm proc_comm[4];
> > +     u32 version[32];
> > +     u32 smem_initialized;
> > +     u32 free_offset;
> > +     u32 available;
> > +     u32 unused;
> 
> I see that you inlined the smem_heap_info struct.  That is slightly
> problematic since we have some uses of that structure, and without it,
> accessing id 1 becomes complicated.  I would prefer you reintroduce it.
> 

Could you help me better understand what you mean here? I've scanned through
msm-3.4 and msm-3.10 and read your comment numerous times, but I can't find any
uses that needs it nor figure out why it would be difficult to access item 1.

> > +     struct smem_entry toc[SMEM_MAX_ITEMS];
> > +};

Thanks,
Bjorn



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