On 04/19/2013 04:42 AM, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> Currently the OF DMA code uses a spin lock to protect the of_dma_list from
> concurrent access and a per controller reference count to protect the 
> controller
> from being freed while a request operation is in progress. If
> of_dma_controller_free() is called for a controller who's reference count is 
> not
> zero it will return -EBUSY and not remove the controller. This is fine up 
> until
> here, but leaves the question what the caller of of_dma_controller_free() is
> supposed to do if the controller couldn't be freed.  The only viable solution
> for the caller is to spin on of_dma_controller_free() until it returns 
> success.
> E.g.
> 
>       do {
>               ret = of_dma_controller_free(dev->of_node)
>       } while (ret != -EBUSY);
> 
> This is rather ugly and unnecessary and non of the current users of
> of_dma_controller_free() check it's return value anyway. Instead protect the
> list by a mutex. The mutex will be held as long as a request operation is in
> progress. So if of_dma_controller_free() is called while a request operation 
> is
> in progress it will be put to sleep and only wake up once the request 
> operation
> has finished.
> 
> This means that it is no longer possible to register or unregister OF DMA
> controllers from a context where it's not possible to sleep. But I doubt that
> we'll ever need this.

Change also means that of_dma_request_slave_channel() cannot be called
from a context where it is not possible to sleep too, right? May be
worth mentioning this in the changelog as well.

> Also rename of_dma_get_controller back to of_dma_find_controller.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <l...@metafoo.de>
> ---
>  drivers/dma/of-dma.c   | 76 
> +++++++++++++-------------------------------------
>  include/linux/of_dma.h |  6 ++--
>  2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/of-dma.c b/drivers/dma/of-dma.c
> index 2882403..7aa0864 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/of-dma.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/of-dma.c
> @@ -13,38 +13,31 @@
>  #include <linux/device.h>
>  #include <linux/err.h>
>  #include <linux/module.h>
> -#include <linux/rculist.h>
> +#include <linux/mutex.h>
>  #include <linux/slab.h>
>  #include <linux/of.h>
>  #include <linux/of_dma.h>
>  
>  static LIST_HEAD(of_dma_list);
> -static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(of_dma_lock);
> +static DEFINE_MUTEX(of_dma_lock);
>  
>  /**
> - * of_dma_get_controller - Get a DMA controller in DT DMA helpers list
> + * of_dma_find_controller - Get a DMA controller in DT DMA helpers list
>   * @dma_spec:        pointer to DMA specifier as found in the device tree
>   *
>   * Finds a DMA controller with matching device node and number for dma cells
> - * in a list of registered DMA controllers. If a match is found the use_count
> - * variable is increased and a valid pointer to the DMA data stored is 
> retuned.
> - * A NULL pointer is returned if no match is found.
> + * in a list of registered DMA controllers. If a match is found a valid 
> pointer
> + * to the DMA data stored is retuned. A NULL pointer is returned if no match 
> is
> + * found.
>   */
> -static struct of_dma *of_dma_get_controller(struct of_phandle_args *dma_spec)
> +static struct of_dma *of_dma_find_controller(struct of_phandle_args 
> *dma_spec)
>  {
>       struct of_dma *ofdma;
>  
> -     spin_lock(&of_dma_lock);
> -
>       list_for_each_entry(ofdma, &of_dma_list, of_dma_controllers)
>               if ((ofdma->of_node == dma_spec->np) &&
> -                 (ofdma->of_dma_nbcells == dma_spec->args_count)) {
> -                     ofdma->use_count++;
> -                     spin_unlock(&of_dma_lock);
> +                 (ofdma->of_dma_nbcells == dma_spec->args_count))
>                       return ofdma;
> -             }
> -
> -     spin_unlock(&of_dma_lock);
>  
>       pr_debug("%s: can't find DMA controller %s\n", __func__,
>                dma_spec->np->full_name);
> @@ -53,22 +46,6 @@ static struct of_dma *of_dma_get_controller(struct 
> of_phandle_args *dma_spec)
>  }
>  
>  /**
> - * of_dma_put_controller - Decrement use count for a registered DMA 
> controller
> - * @of_dma:  pointer to DMA controller data
> - *
> - * Decrements the use_count variable in the DMA data structure. This function
> - * should be called only when a valid pointer is returned from
> - * of_dma_get_controller() and no further accesses to data referenced by that
> - * pointer are needed.
> - */
> -static void of_dma_put_controller(struct of_dma *ofdma)
> -{
> -     spin_lock(&of_dma_lock);
> -     ofdma->use_count--;
> -     spin_unlock(&of_dma_lock);
> -}
> -
> -/**
>   * of_dma_controller_register - Register a DMA controller to DT DMA helpers
>   * @np:                      device node of DMA controller
>   * @of_dma_xlate:    translation function which converts a phandle
> @@ -114,12 +91,11 @@ int of_dma_controller_register(struct device_node *np,
>       ofdma->of_dma_nbcells = nbcells;
>       ofdma->of_dma_xlate = of_dma_xlate;
>       ofdma->of_dma_data = data;
> -     ofdma->use_count = 0;
>  
>       /* Now queue of_dma controller structure in list */
> -     spin_lock(&of_dma_lock);
> +     mutex_lock(&of_dma_lock);
>       list_add_tail(&ofdma->of_dma_controllers, &of_dma_list);
> -     spin_unlock(&of_dma_lock);
> +     mutex_unlock(&of_dma_lock);
>  
>       return 0;
>  }
> @@ -131,32 +107,20 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(of_dma_controller_register);
>   *
>   * Memory allocated by of_dma_controller_register() is freed here.
>   */
> -int of_dma_controller_free(struct device_node *np)
> +void of_dma_controller_free(struct device_node *np)
>  {
>       struct of_dma *ofdma;
>  
> -     spin_lock(&of_dma_lock);
> -
> -     if (list_empty(&of_dma_list)) {
> -             spin_unlock(&of_dma_lock);
> -             return -ENODEV;
> -     }
> +     mutex_lock(&of_dma_lock);
>  
>       list_for_each_entry(ofdma, &of_dma_list, of_dma_controllers)
>               if (ofdma->of_node == np) {
> -                     if (ofdma->use_count) {
> -                             spin_unlock(&of_dma_lock);
> -                             return -EBUSY;
> -                     }
> -
>                       list_del(&ofdma->of_dma_controllers);
> -                     spin_unlock(&of_dma_lock);
>                       kfree(ofdma);
> -                     return 0;
> +                     break;
>               }
>  
> -     spin_unlock(&of_dma_lock);
> -     return -ENODEV;
> +     mutex_unlock(&of_dma_lock);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(of_dma_controller_free);
>  
> @@ -219,15 +183,15 @@ struct dma_chan *of_dma_request_slave_channel(struct 
> device_node *np,
>               if (of_dma_match_channel(np, name, i, &dma_spec))
>                       continue;
>  
> -             ofdma = of_dma_get_controller(&dma_spec);
> +             mutex_lock(&of_dma_lock);
> +             ofdma = of_dma_find_controller(&dma_spec);
>  
> -             if (ofdma) {
> +             if (ofdma)
>                       chan = ofdma->of_dma_xlate(&dma_spec, ofdma);

I think that there is a problem here. For controllers using the
of_dma_simple_xlate(), this will call dma_request_channel() which also
uses a mutex.

Cheers
Jon
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