[PATCH v5 1/3] ARM: Introduce atomic MMIO modify

Ezequiel Garcia ezequiel.garcia at free-electrons.com
Sun Jan 12 09:52:07 EST 2014


On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 11:58:35AM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 09:47:24AM -0500, Jason Cooper wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 11:30:57AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:41:35AM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> > > > Some SoC have MMIO regions that are shared across orthogonal
> > > > subsystems. This commit implements a possible solution for the
> > > > thread-safe access of such regions through a spinlock-protected API.
> > > > 
> > > > Concurrent access is protected with a single spinlock for the
> > > > entire MMIO address space. While this protects shared-registers,
> > > > it also serializes access to unrelated/unshared registers.
> > > > 
> > > > We add relaxed and non-relaxed variants, by using writel_relaxed and writel,
> > > > respectively. The rationale for this is that some users may not require
> > > > register write completion but only thread-safe access to a register.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia at free-electrons.com>
> > > 
> > > Okay, so this patch has been submitted to the patch system, but it
> > > contains no other tags other than Ezequiel's sign-off.  Clearly
> > > other people *have* reviewed it.
> > > 
> > > Can we please have some acks etc for it please?
> > 
> > Acked-by: Jason Cooper <jason at lakedaemon.net>
> > 

Catalin, Will: Can you ack as well, so Russell can take this?

Thanks!
-- 
Ezequiel García, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering
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