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Message-ID: <9be3d491-4fdc-4aa6-8176-23a2cf3773ca@foss.st.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 11:57:33 +0100
From: Arnaud POULIQUEN <arnaud.pouliquen@...s.st.com>
To: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
Deepak Kumar Singh <quic_deesin@...cinc.com>
CC: <swboyd@...omium.org>, <quic_clew@...cinc.com>,
<mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
<linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
<linux-remoteproc@...r.kernel.org>,
Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@...ery.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/3] rpmsg: core: Add signal API support
On 3/11/22 22:11, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> On Tue 18 Jan 13:43 CST 2022, Deepak Kumar Singh wrote:
>
>> Some transports like Glink support the state notifications between
>> clients using signals similar to serial protocol signals.
>> Local glink client drivers can send and receive signals to glink
>> clients running on remote processors.
>>
>> Add APIs to support sending and receiving of signals by rpmsg clients.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Deepak Kumar Singh <quic_deesin@...cinc.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_core.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>> drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_internal.h | 2 ++
>> include/linux/rpmsg.h | 14 ++++++++++++++
>> 3 files changed, 37 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_core.c b/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_core.c
>> index d3eb600..6712418 100644
>> --- a/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_core.c
>> +++ b/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_core.c
>> @@ -328,6 +328,24 @@ int rpmsg_trysend_offchannel(struct rpmsg_endpoint *ept, u32 src, u32 dst,
>> EXPORT_SYMBOL(rpmsg_trysend_offchannel);
>>
>> /**
>> + * rpmsg_set_flow_control() - sets/clears serial flow control signals
>> + * @ept: the rpmsg endpoint
>> + * @enable: enable or disable serial flow control
>> + *
>> + * Return: 0 on success and an appropriate error value on failure.
>> + */
>> +int rpmsg_set_flow_control(struct rpmsg_endpoint *ept, bool enable)
>
> This API looks nice and clean and deals with flow control.
seems to me ambiguous API... what does it means flow control enable? Does it means that the flow control is enable or that the the local
endpoint is ready to receive?
Could we consider here that it is more a bind/unbind of the endpoint?
>
>> +{
>> + if (WARN_ON(!ept))
>> + return -EINVAL;
>> + if (!ept->ops->set_flow_control)
>> + return -ENXIO;
>> +
>> + return ept->ops->set_flow_control(ept, enable);
>> +}
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(rpmsg_set_flow_control);
>> +
>> +/**
>> * rpmsg_get_mtu() - get maximum transmission buffer size for sending message.
>> * @ept: the rpmsg endpoint
>> *
>> @@ -535,6 +553,9 @@ static int rpmsg_dev_probe(struct device *dev)
>>
>> rpdev->ept = ept;
>> rpdev->src = ept->addr;
>> +
>> + if (rpdrv->signals)
seems an useless check
>> + ept->sig_cb = rpdrv->signals;
>> }
>>
>> err = rpdrv->probe(rpdev);
>> diff --git a/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_internal.h b/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_internal.h
>> index b1245d3..35c2197 100644
>> --- a/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_internal.h
>> +++ b/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_internal.h
>> @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ struct rpmsg_device_ops {
>> * @trysendto: see @rpmsg_trysendto(), optional
>> * @trysend_offchannel: see @rpmsg_trysend_offchannel(), optional
>> * @poll: see @rpmsg_poll(), optional
>> + * @set_flow_control: see @rpmsg_set_flow_control(), optional
>> * @get_mtu: see @rpmsg_get_mtu(), optional
>> *
>> * Indirection table for the operations that a rpmsg backend should implement.
>> @@ -73,6 +74,7 @@ struct rpmsg_endpoint_ops {
>> void *data, int len);
>> __poll_t (*poll)(struct rpmsg_endpoint *ept, struct file *filp,
>> poll_table *wait);
>> + int (*set_flow_control)(struct rpmsg_endpoint *ept, bool enable);
>> ssize_t (*get_mtu)(struct rpmsg_endpoint *ept);
>> };
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/rpmsg.h b/include/linux/rpmsg.h
>> index 02fa911..06d090c 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/rpmsg.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/rpmsg.h
>> @@ -62,12 +62,14 @@ struct rpmsg_device {
>> };
>>
>> typedef int (*rpmsg_rx_cb_t)(struct rpmsg_device *, void *, int, void *, u32);
>> +typedef int (*rpmsg_rx_sig_t)(struct rpmsg_device *, void *, u32);
>
> This callback however, is still using the original low level tty
> signals.
>
> Is there any reason why this can't be "rpmsg_flowcontrol_cb_t" and take
> a boolean, so we get a clean interface in both directions?
>
> Regards,
> Bjorn
>
>>
>> /**
>> * struct rpmsg_endpoint - binds a local rpmsg address to its user
>> * @rpdev: rpmsg channel device
>> * @refcount: when this drops to zero, the ept is deallocated
>> * @cb: rx callback handler
>> + * @sig_cb: rx serial signal handler
Is it signaling for reception or transmission?
Regards,
Arnaud
>> * @cb_lock: must be taken before accessing/changing @cb
>> * @addr: local rpmsg address
>> * @priv: private data for the driver's use
>> @@ -90,6 +92,7 @@ struct rpmsg_endpoint {
>> struct rpmsg_device *rpdev;
>> struct kref refcount;
>> rpmsg_rx_cb_t cb;
>> + rpmsg_rx_sig_t sig_cb;
>> struct mutex cb_lock;
>> u32 addr;
>> void *priv;
>> @@ -111,6 +114,7 @@ struct rpmsg_driver {
>> int (*probe)(struct rpmsg_device *dev);
>> void (*remove)(struct rpmsg_device *dev);
>> int (*callback)(struct rpmsg_device *, void *, int, void *, u32);
>> + int (*signals)(struct rpmsg_device *rpdev, void *priv, u32);
>> };
>>
>> static inline u16 rpmsg16_to_cpu(struct rpmsg_device *rpdev, __rpmsg16 val)
>> @@ -188,6 +192,8 @@ __poll_t rpmsg_poll(struct rpmsg_endpoint *ept, struct file *filp,
>>
>> ssize_t rpmsg_get_mtu(struct rpmsg_endpoint *ept);
>>
>> +int rpmsg_set_flow_control(struct rpmsg_endpoint *ept, bool enable);
>> +
>> #else
>>
>> static inline int rpmsg_register_device(struct rpmsg_device *rpdev)
>> @@ -306,6 +312,14 @@ static inline ssize_t rpmsg_get_mtu(struct rpmsg_endpoint *ept)
>> return -ENXIO;
>> }
>>
>> +static inline int rpmsg_set_flow_control(struct rpmsg_endpoint *ept, bool enable)
>> +{
>> + /* This shouldn't be possible */
>> + WARN_ON(1);
>> +
>> + return -ENXIO;
>> +}
>> +
>> #endif /* IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RPMSG) */
>>
>> /* use a macro to avoid include chaining to get THIS_MODULE */
>> --
>> 2.7.4
>>
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