Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] serial: 8250: Add a wakeup_capable module param | Date | Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:04:35 +0100 |
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On Monday, January 23, 2012, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 12:49:35AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Friday, January 20, 2012, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 01:03:34AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > On Thursday, January 19, 2012, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 01:02:58AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > > On Wednesday, January 18, 2012, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 02:15:59PM -0800, Simon Glass wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > Yes, you can, but then I'd say it's not necessary for user space to > > > > > > be able to carry that out in a tight loop. So, it seems, alternatively, > > > > > > we could make that loop a bit less tight, e.g. by adding an arbitrary > > > > > > sleep to the user space interface for the "disable" case. > > > > > > > > > > Good point, that would work just as well and be simpler. > > > > > > > > Thanks for the confirmation! :-) > > > > > > > > By the way, I wonder, would it help to add synchronize_rcu() to > > > > wakeup_source_add() too? Then, even if device_wakeup_enable() and > > > > device_wakeup_disable() are executed in a tight loop for the same > > > > device, the list_add/list_del operations will always happen in > > > > different RCU cycles (or at least it seems so). > > > > > > I cannot immediately see how adding a synchronize_rcu() to > > > wakeup_source_add() would help anything. You only need to wait for a > > > grace period on removal, not (normally) on addition. The single grace > > > period during removal will catch up all other asynchronous RCU grace > > > period requests on that CPU. > > > > > > Or am I missing your point? > > > > Well, I was thinking about the failure scenario you mentioned where > > executing enable/disable in a tight loop might exhaust system memory > > (if I understood it correctly). > > Ah, got it. If they are executing this in a tight loop, there will be > little difference between doing one synchronize_rcu() per pass through > the loop or doing two. So we should be just fine with the single instance > of synchronize_rcu() per loop.
Good! :-)
Thanks a lot, Rafael
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