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SubjectRe: [spi-devel-general] Re: [PATCH 2.6-git] SPI core refresh
Mark Underwood wrote:

>--- vitalhome@rbcmail.ru wrote:
>
>
>
>>Mark,
>>
>>
>>
>>>>>I still do not see why you are stating this. Why do you say this?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>Due to possible priority inversion problems in David's core.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Which you still haven't proven, in fact you now seem to be changing your mind and saying
>>>that
>>>there might be a problem if an adapter driver was implemented badly although I still
>>>don't see how
>>>this could happen (the priority inversion I mean not the badly implemented driver ;).
>>>
>>>
>>Truly admiring your deep understanding of the real-time technology, I should remind you
>>that within the real-time conditions almost each event may happen and may not happen, for
>>instance, two calls from different context to the same funtion may happen at the same or
>>almost the same time, and may not happen that way. Therefore I used the word "possible".
>>Hope I clarified that a bit for you.
>>
>>Please also see my previous emails for the explanation of how priority inversion can
>>happen. This is not gonna be a rare case, BTW.
>>
>>
>
>Vitaly,
>
>First, please can you not change the CC list in the midle of a thread.
>
Yeah, sorry for that. You see, I was emailing not from my computer.

>
>OK, looking through the code after a cup of coffe I can see the problem you are pointing out,
>thank you :), for some reason I thought that that code was protected by a spin_lock :/.
>
>How to fix this?
>
>David, how would you feel about adding a NOT_DMAABLE flag in the spi_message structure? This
>helper routine could then use this thus solving the one buffer to many callers problem (well
>moving into the adapter driver, but as that serialise's transfers anyway I think this would remove
>the priority inversion problem, Vitaly?)
>
>The other solution is to do a kmalloc for each caller (would could try to be smart and only do
>that if the buffer is being used).
>
>
And each one of the techniques suggested will make David's core closer
to ours :)

Vitaly
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