From: robherring2@gmail.com (Rob Herring)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 3/3] pstore/ram: avoid atomic accesses for ioremapped regions
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:55:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51658B77.4050400@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMbhsRSNPz1d9bGGEjqyTwVg_1pv8PB15WybEL5ZRVgmnTDWLQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 04/09/2013 11:10 PM, Colin Cross wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com> wrote:
>> From: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
>>
>> For persistent RAM outside of main memory, the memory may have limitations
>> on supported accesses. For internal RAM on highbank platform exclusive
>> accesses are not supported and will hang the system. So atomic_cmpxchg
>> cannot be used. This commit uses spinlock protection for buffer size and
>> start updates on ioremapped regions instead.
>
> I used atomics in persistent_ram to support persistent ftrace, which
> now exists as PSTORE_FTRACE. At some point during development I had
> trouble with recursive tracing causing an infinite loop, so you may
> want to test that calling out to spinlock functions with PSTORE_FTRACE
> turned on and enabled doesn't cause a problem.
I've tested that now and it appears to work fine. Was there some
specific setup of ftrace that caused problems?
Rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-10 15:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-10 3:08 [RFC PATCH 1/3] pstore-ram: use write-combine mappings Rob Herring
2013-04-10 3:08 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] pstore ram: remove the power of buffer size limitation Rob Herring
2013-04-10 3:08 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] pstore/ram: avoid atomic accesses for ioremapped regions Rob Herring
2013-04-10 4:10 ` Colin Cross
2013-04-10 15:55 ` Rob Herring [this message]
2013-04-10 3:53 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] pstore-ram: use write-combine mappings Colin Cross
2013-04-10 13:30 ` Rob Herring
2013-04-15 22:21 ` Colin Cross
2013-04-15 23:59 ` Rob Herring
2013-04-16 0:43 ` Colin Cross
2013-04-16 8:44 ` Will Deacon
2013-04-16 12:58 ` Rob Herring
2013-04-16 13:48 ` Catalin Marinas
2013-04-19 9:54 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
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