- 22 9月, 2011 2 次提交
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由 Ohad Ben-Cohen 提交于
hwspinlock devices provide system-wide hardware locks that are used by remote processors that have no other way to achieve synchronization. To achieve that, each physical lock must have a system-wide id number that is agreed upon, otherwise remote processors can't possibly assume they're using the same hardware lock. Usually boards have a single hwspinlock device, which provides several hwspinlocks, and in this case, they can be trivially numbered 0 to (num-of-locks - 1). In case boards have several hwspinlocks devices, a different base id should be used for each hwspinlock device (they can't all use 0 as a starting id!). While this is certainly not common, it's just plain wrong to just silently use 0 as a base id whenever the hwspinlock driver is probed. This patch provides a hwspinlock_pdata structure, that boards can use to set a different base id for each of the hwspinlock devices they may have, and demonstrates how to use it with the omap hwspinlock driver. While we're at it, make sure the hwspinlock core prints an explicit error message in case an hwspinlock is registered with an id number that already exists; this will help users catch such base id issues. Reported-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: NOhad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com> Acked-by: NTony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
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由 Ohad Ben-Cohen 提交于
Use struct device_driver's owner member instead of asking drivers to explicitly pass the owner again. This simplifies drivers and also save some memory, since there's no point now in maintaining a separate owner pointer per hwspinlock. Signed-off-by: NOhad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
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- 18 2月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Ohad Ben-Cohen 提交于
Add a platform-independent hwspinlock framework. Hardware spinlock devices are needed, e.g., in order to access data that is shared between remote processors, that otherwise have no alternative mechanism to accomplish synchronization and mutual exclusion operations. Signed-off-by: NOhad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com> Cc: Hari Kanigeri <h-kanigeri2@ti.com> Cc: Benoit Cousson <b-cousson@ti.com> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: NTony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
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