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Message-ID: <2746d50a-5658-5058-4369-1a1b34f85710@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2023 16:03:06 +0530
From: Ayush Singh <ayushdevel1325@...il.com>
To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>, greybus-dev@...ts.linaro.org
Cc: devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
Vaishnav M A <vaishnav@...gleboard.org>,
Jason Kridner <jkridner@...gleboard.org>,
Nishanth Menon <nm@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] greybus: Add BeaglePlay Linux Driver
On 9/6/23 15:29, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 05/09/2023 18:27, Ayush Singh wrote:
>>>> +static void hdlc_handle_rx_frame(struct gb_beagleplay *bg)
>>>> +{
>>>> + u8 address = bg->rx_buffer[0];
>>>> + char *buffer = &bg->rx_buffer[2];
>>>> + size_t buffer_len = bg->rx_buffer_len - 4;
>>>> +
>>>> + switch (address) {
>>>> + case ADDRESS_DBG:
>>>> + hdlc_handle_dbg_frame(bg, buffer, buffer_len);
>>>> + break;
>>>> + case ADDRESS_GREYBUS:
>>>> + hdlc_handle_greybus_frame(bg, buffer, buffer_len);
>>>> + break;
>>>> + default:
>>>> + dev_warn(&bg->serdev->dev, "Got Unknown Frame %u", address);
>>> ratelimit
>>> Probably as well in several places with possible flooding.
>> I don't think `hdlc_handle_rx_frame` is the correct place since it only
>> processes a single completed HDLC frame. The more appropriate place
>> would be `hdlc_rx` if we want to limit based on the number of HDLC
>> frames or `gb_beagleplay_tty_receive` to limit based on the number of bytes.
>>
>> I would like to ask, though, why is rate limiting required here? Won't
>> `serdev_device_ops->receive_buf` already rate limit the number of bytes
>> somewhat? Or is it related to blocking in the
>> `serdev_device_ops->receive_buf` callback? In the case of latter, it
>> would probably make sense to ratelimit based on number of frames, I think.
> My comment might not be accurate, so I do not insist. The name of the
> function suggested something being called very often (on every frame),
> thus you would print warning also very often.
>
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
>
Rate limiting the logs is not a bad idea. Initially I was not aware you
meant about logging, hence the question. With proper firmware in CC1352,
the warning will never be printed. But maybe it can cause problem with
improper firmware.
Ayush Singh
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