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authorErnst Schwab <eschwab@online.de>2010-06-29 02:49:29 +0200
committerGrant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>2010-06-29 02:49:29 +0200
commitcf32b71e981ca63e8f349d8585ca2a3583b556e0 (patch)
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parentLinux 2.6.35-rc3 (diff)
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spi/mmc_spi: SPI bus locking API, using mutex
SPI bus locking API to allow exclusive access to the SPI bus, especially, but not limited to, for the mmc_spi driver. Coded according to an outline from Grant Likely; here is his specification (accidentally swapped function names corrected): It requires 3 things to be added to struct spi_master. - 1 Mutex - 1 spin lock - 1 flag. The mutex protects spi_sync, and provides sleeping "for free" The spinlock protects the atomic spi_async call. The flag is set when the lock is obtained, and checked while holding the spinlock in spi_async(). If the flag is checked, then spi_async() must fail immediately. The current runtime API looks like this: spi_async(struct spi_device*, struct spi_message*); spi_sync(struct spi_device*, struct spi_message*); The API needs to be extended to this: spi_async(struct spi_device*, struct spi_message*) spi_sync(struct spi_device*, struct spi_message*) spi_bus_lock(struct spi_master*) /* although struct spi_device* might be easier */ spi_bus_unlock(struct spi_master*) spi_async_locked(struct spi_device*, struct spi_message*) spi_sync_locked(struct spi_device*, struct spi_message*) Drivers can only call the last two if they already hold the spi_master_lock(). spi_bus_lock() obtains the mutex, obtains the spin lock, sets the flag, and releases the spin lock before returning. It doesn't even need to sleep while waiting for "in-flight" spi_transactions to complete because its purpose is to guarantee no additional transactions are added. It does not guarantee that the bus is idle. spi_bus_unlock() clears the flag and releases the mutex, which will wake up any waiters. The difference between spi_async() and spi_async_locked() is that the locked version bypasses the check of the lock flag. Both versions need to obtain the spinlock. The difference between spi_sync() and spi_sync_locked() is that spi_sync() must hold the mutex while enqueuing a new transfer. spi_sync_locked() doesn't because the mutex is already held. Note however that spi_sync must *not* continue to hold the mutex while waiting for the transfer to complete, otherwise only one transfer could be queued up at a time! Almost no code needs to be written. The current spi_async() and spi_sync() can probably be renamed to __spi_async() and __spi_sync() so that spi_async(), spi_sync(), spi_async_locked() and spi_sync_locked() can just become wrappers around the common code. spi_sync() is protected by a mutex because it can sleep spi_async() needs to be protected with a flag and a spinlock because it can be called atomically and must not sleep Signed-off-by: Ernst Schwab <eschwab@online.de> [grant.likely@secretlab.ca: use spin_lock_irqsave()] Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Tested-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org> Tested-by: Antonio Ospite <ospite@studenti.unina.it>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/spi/spi.h12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/spi/spi.h b/include/linux/spi/spi.h
index af56071b06f9..ae0a5286f558 100644
--- a/include/linux/spi/spi.h
+++ b/include/linux/spi/spi.h
@@ -262,6 +262,13 @@ struct spi_master {
#define SPI_MASTER_NO_RX BIT(1) /* can't do buffer read */
#define SPI_MASTER_NO_TX BIT(2) /* can't do buffer write */
+ /* lock and mutex for SPI bus locking */
+ spinlock_t bus_lock_spinlock;
+ struct mutex bus_lock_mutex;
+
+ /* flag indicating that the SPI bus is locked for exclusive use */
+ bool bus_lock_flag;
+
/* Setup mode and clock, etc (spi driver may call many times).
*
* IMPORTANT: this may be called when transfers to another
@@ -542,6 +549,8 @@ static inline void spi_message_free(struct spi_message *m)
extern int spi_setup(struct spi_device *spi);
extern int spi_async(struct spi_device *spi, struct spi_message *message);
+extern int spi_async_locked(struct spi_device *spi,
+ struct spi_message *message);
/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
@@ -551,6 +560,9 @@ extern int spi_async(struct spi_device *spi, struct spi_message *message);
*/
extern int spi_sync(struct spi_device *spi, struct spi_message *message);
+extern int spi_sync_locked(struct spi_device *spi, struct spi_message *message);
+extern int spi_bus_lock(struct spi_master *master);
+extern int spi_bus_unlock(struct spi_master *master);
/**
* spi_write - SPI synchronous write