On Tue 23 Jun 18:41 PDT 2020, risha...@codeaurora.org wrote: > On 2020-06-23 14:45, Alex Elder wrote: > > On 6/22/20 8:04 PM, Rishabh Bhatnagar wrote: > > > Currently there is a single notification chain which is called > > > whenever any > > > remoteproc shuts down. This leads to all the listeners being > > > notified, and > > > is not an optimal design as kernel drivers might only be interested in > > > listening to notifications from a particular remoteproc. Create a > > > global > > > list of remoteproc notification info data structures. This will hold > > > the > > > name and notifier_list information for a particular remoteproc. The > > > API > > > to register for notifications will use name argument to retrieve the > > > notification info data structure and the notifier block will be > > > added to > > > that data structure's notification chain. Also move from blocking > > > notifier > > > to srcu notifer based implementation to support dynamic notifier head > > > creation. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Siddharth Gupta <sid...@codeaurora.org> > > > Signed-off-by: Rishabh Bhatnagar <risha...@codeaurora.org> > > > > Sorry, a few more comments, but I think your next one will > > likely be fine. > > > > General: > > - SSR subsystems are added but never removed. Note that > > "qcom_common.o" can be built as a module, and if that > > module were ever removed, memory allocated for these > > subsystems would be leaked. > Hi Alex, > Thank you for reviewing this patchset quickly. This point was > brought up by Bjorn and it was decided that I will push another patch on > top in which I'll do the cleanup during module exit. > > - Will a remoteproc subdev (and in particular, an SSR subdev) > > ever be removed? What happens to entities that have > > registered for SSR notifications in that case? > In practice it should never be removed. If it is clients will > never get notification about subsystem shutdown/powerup.
Given that clients make direct function calls into qcom_common.ko, qcom_common.ko would not be possible to rmmod until all clients has been rmmod'ed. As such there shouldn't be any remaining listeners, or subdevices, when this happens. Regards, Bjorn
