[PATCH v8 07/28] mailbox: Allow direct registration to a channel

[Elliot Berman]

On 1/9/2023 1:34 PM, Alex Elder wrote:
> On 12/19/22 4:58 PM, Elliot Berman wrote:
>> Support virtual mailbox controllers and clients which are not platform
>> devices or come from the devicetree by allowing them to match client to
>> channel via some other mechanism.
> 
> The new function behaves very much like mbox_request_channel()
> did before.
> 
> The new function differs from omap_mbox_request_channel() in that
> it can change the if chan->txdone_method is TXDONE_BY_POLL, it
> is changed to TXDONE_BY_ACK if the client's knows_txdone field is
> set.  Is this OK?  Why?

Both of the current drivers that use mbox_bind_client use TXDONE_BY_IRQ, 
so this doesn't cause issue for checking whether the client has 
txdone_method.

> 
> It also assumes chan->mbox->ops->startup us non-null (though that
> isn't really a problem).
> 
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Elliot Berman <quic_eberman at quicinc.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c      | 96 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>>   drivers/mailbox/omap-mailbox.c | 18 ++-----
>>   drivers/mailbox/pcc.c          | 18 ++-----
>>   include/linux/mailbox_client.h |  1 +
>>   4 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c b/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c
>> index 4229b9b5da98..adf36c05fa43 100644
>> --- a/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c
>> +++ b/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c
>> @@ -317,6 +317,71 @@ int mbox_flush(struct mbox_chan *chan, unsigned 
>> long timeout)
>>   }
>>   EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mbox_flush);
>> +static int __mbox_bind_client(struct mbox_chan *chan, struct 
>> mbox_client *cl)
> 
> There should be an unbind_client() call.  At a minimum, you are
> calling try_module_get(), and the matching module_put() call
> would belong there.  And even though one might just call
> module_put() elsewhere for this, it would be cleaner to have
> a function that similarly encapsulates the shutdown call
> as well.

The function for this is "mbox_free_channel".

Thanks,
Elliot