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    soc: qcom: rpmh-rsc: Simplify locking by eliminating the per-TCS lock · 555701a4
    Douglas Anderson authored
    The rpmh-rsc code had both a driver-level lock (sometimes referred to
    in comments as drv->lock) and a lock per-TCS.  The idea was supposed
    to be that there would be times where you could get by with just
    locking a TCS lock and therefor other RPMH users wouldn't be blocked.
    
    The above didn't work out so well.
    
    Looking at tcs_write() the bigger drv->lock was held for most of the
    function anyway.  Only the __tcs_buffer_write() and
    __tcs_set_trigger() calls were called without holding the drv->lock.
    It actually turns out that in tcs_write() we don't need to hold the
    drv->lock for those function calls anyway even if the per-TCS lock
    isn't there anymore.  From the newly added comments in the code, this
    is because:
    - We marked "tcs_in_use" under lock.
    - Once "tcs_in_use" has been marked nobody else could be writing
      to these registers until the interrupt goes off.
    - The interrupt can't go off until we trigger w/ the last line
      of __tcs_set_trigger().
    Thus, from a tcs_write() point of view, the per-TCS lock was useless.
    
    Looking at rpmh_rsc_write_ctrl_data(), only the per-TCS lock was held.
    It turns out, though, that this function already needs to be called
    with the equivalent of the drv->lock held anyway (we either need to
    hold drv->lock as we will in a future patch or we need to know no
    other CPUs could be running as happens today).  Specifically
    rpmh_rsc_write_ctrl_data() might be writing to a TCS that has been
    borrowed for writing an active transation but it never checks this.
    
    Let's eliminate this extra overhead and avoid possible AB BA locking
    headaches.
    Suggested-by: default avatarMaulik Shah <mkshah@codeaurora.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDouglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarStephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200504104917.v6.4.Ib8dccfdb10bf6b1fb1d600ca1c21d9c0db1ef746@changeidSigned-off-by: default avatarBjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
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