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SubjectRe: [PATCH] net: mdio-gpio: support access that may sleep
On 04/24/2015 08:36 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:

>>>>> Some systems using mdio-gpio may use gpio on message based busses,
>>>>> which
>>>>> require sleeping (e.g. gpio from an I2C I/O expander).

>>>>> Since this driver does not use IRQ handler, it is safe to use the
>>>>> _cansleep suffixed gpio accessors.

>>>>> Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>

>>>> Since this is down underneath the layer of an MII bus, you cannot
>>>> universally say that these routines are always called in a sleepable
>>>> context.

>>>> The PHY layer, and the driver itself above that, might call these
>>>> routines from timers, interruptes etc.

>>> The PHY library calls these routines from its state machine workqueue
>>> for that reason, or from process context (when invoked via ethtool
>>> ioctl). The only special case is phy_mac_interrupt() which is callable
>>> from interrupt context,

>> It is not (as we have discussed recently) -- cancel_work_sync() may
>> sleep.

> True, but that does not invalidate my comment, I meant to write that
> this is the only function that you *might* potentially want to call from
> interrupt context,

Sure, I did want that. :-)

> and yet it does not trigger low-level I/O accesses to
> the underlying MDIO bus, but instead uses the PHY library state machine
> workqueue to do that.

That's so.

> Thanks for the reminder though, that needs fixing ;)

Hopefully it's fixable... I had to use GPIO interrupt for AVB_PHY_INT pin
since I didn't want to create a thread just to call phy_mac_interrupt().

> --
> Florian

WBR, Sergei



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