linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] iio: allow userspace to flush the hwfifo with non-blocking reads

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Message-ID: <557EBAB6.6060809@metafoo.de>
Date:	Mon, 15 Jun 2015 13:44:54 +0200
From:	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>
To:	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>,
	Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@...el.com>
CC:	Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@....de>,
	Peter Meerwald <pmeerw@...erw.net>, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] iio: allow userspace to flush the hwfifo with non-blocking
 reads

On 06/14/2015 04:33 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On 05/06/15 13:56, Octavian Purdila wrote:
>> This patch changes the semantics of non-blocking reads so that a
>> hardware fifo flush is triggered if the available data in the device
>> buffer is less then the requested size.
>>
>> This allows userspace to accurately generate hardware fifo flushes, by
>> doing a non-blocking read with a size greater then the sum of the
>> device buffer and hardware fifo size.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@...el.com>
> Hi Octavian,
>
> I'm personally happy with this approach, but would like Lars to have
> a chance to take a look as he's been getting his hands a lot dirtier in
> this area than I have recently!

Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>

>
> This seems a logical bit of API to me even without the desire to use it
> to force a flush.  If we want whatever data is available now,
> we want that data now, not when the fifo gets around to giving it to us!
>
> Feel free to poke me if this sits here uncommented upon for a few more
> weeks!
>
> Jonathan
>> ---
>>
>> This is the second iteration of the patch that allows userspace to
>> accurately generate flush events. The first RFC patch set was
>> discussed here:
>>
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/4/29/202
>>
>>
>>   drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c | 18 +++++++++---------
>>   1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c b/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c
>> index df919f4..24085db 100644
>> --- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c
>> +++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c
>> @@ -71,8 +71,9 @@ static bool iio_buffer_ready(struct iio_dev *indio_dev, struct iio_buffer *buf,
>>
>>   	if (avail >= to_wait) {
>>   		/* force a flush for non-blocking reads */
>> -		if (!to_wait && !avail && to_flush)
>> -			iio_buffer_flush_hwfifo(indio_dev, buf, to_flush);
>> +		if (!to_wait && avail < to_flush)
>> +			iio_buffer_flush_hwfifo(indio_dev, buf,
>> +						to_flush - avail);
>>   		return true;
>>   	}
>>
>> @@ -100,8 +101,7 @@ ssize_t iio_buffer_read_first_n_outer(struct file *filp, char __user *buf,
>>   	struct iio_dev *indio_dev = filp->private_data;
>>   	struct iio_buffer *rb = indio_dev->buffer;
>>   	size_t datum_size;
>> -	size_t to_wait = 0;
>> -	size_t to_read;
>> +	size_t to_wait;
>>   	int ret;
>>
>>   	if (!indio_dev->info)
>> @@ -119,14 +119,14 @@ ssize_t iio_buffer_read_first_n_outer(struct file *filp, char __user *buf,
>>   	if (!datum_size)
>>   		return 0;
>>
>> -	to_read = min_t(size_t, n / datum_size, rb->watermark);
>> -
>> -	if (!(filp->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK))
>> -		to_wait = to_read;
>> +	if (filp->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK)
>> +		to_wait = 0;
>> +	else
>> +		to_wait = min_t(size_t, n / datum_size, rb->watermark);
>>
>>   	do {
>>   		ret = wait_event_interruptible(rb->pollq,
>> -			iio_buffer_ready(indio_dev, rb, to_wait, to_read));
>> +		      iio_buffer_ready(indio_dev, rb, to_wait, n / datum_size));
>>   		if (ret)
>>   			return ret;
>>
>>
>

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