From: ohad@wizery.com (Ohad Ben-Cohen)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] drivers: misc: add omap_hwspinlock driver
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 23:57:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimx8abJzUo-+BGbM6QxGdMF3dO=dbh_UG=FsWMZ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201010192258.27988.arnd@arndb.de>
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>> If a hwspinlock is taken over a long period of time, its other user
>> (with which we try to achieve synchronization) might be polling the
>> OMAP interconnect for too long (trying to take the hwspinlock) and
>> thus preventing it to be used for other transactions.
>
> This sounds exactly like any other spinlock.
The difference is hardware-specific: the hwspinlock device is located
on the OMAP's L4 interconnect where access is slow, wasteful of power,
and spinning on it may prevent other peripherals from interconnecting.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-19 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-18 7:44 [PATCH 0/3] Add OMAP hardware spinlock misc driver Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-10-18 7:44 ` [PATCH 1/3] drivers: misc: add omap_hwspinlock driver Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-10-19 15:46 ` Greg KH
2010-10-19 20:18 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-10-19 16:58 ` Kevin Hilman
2010-10-19 20:21 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-10-19 17:01 ` Grant Likely
2010-10-19 20:43 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-10-19 20:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-19 21:57 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen [this message]
2010-10-19 17:16 ` Kevin Hilman
2010-10-20 13:00 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-10-20 18:18 ` Kevin Hilman
2010-10-19 17:21 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-19 20:51 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-10-19 21:08 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-20 22:43 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-10-21 9:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-21 10:13 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-10-21 12:02 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-22 17:00 ` Tony Lindgren
2010-10-18 7:44 ` [PATCH 2/3] OMAP4: hwmod data: Add hwspinlock Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-10-18 7:44 ` [PATCH 3/3] omap: add hwspinlock device Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-10-19 17:03 ` Kevin Hilman
2010-10-19 17:05 ` Grant Likely
2010-10-19 21:02 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-10-19 23:12 ` Grant Likely
2010-10-20 14:09 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-10-20 15:51 ` Grant Likely
2010-10-19 23:53 ` Kevin Hilman
2010-10-20 1:20 ` Ryan Mallon
2010-10-20 14:38 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-10-20 15:55 ` Grant Likely
2010-10-20 18:37 ` Kevin Hilman
2010-10-20 19:21 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-10-20 23:58 ` Kevin Hilman
2010-10-21 6:11 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-10-21 8:36 ` Kamoolkar, Mugdha
2010-10-21 9:06 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-10-22 9:59 ` Kamoolkar, Mugdha
2010-10-22 11:16 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-10-21 12:26 ` Kanigeri, Hari
2010-10-22 10:14 ` Kamoolkar, Mugdha
2010-10-22 16:56 ` Tony Lindgren
2010-10-22 17:03 ` Grant Likely
2010-10-22 17:28 ` Tony Lindgren
2010-10-24 17:54 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-10-25 19:02 ` Tony Lindgren
2010-10-26 11:54 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-10-26 19:06 ` Tony Lindgren
2010-10-18 12:46 ` [PATCH 0/3] Add OMAP hardware spinlock misc driver Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-18 13:35 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-10-18 13:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-18 14:28 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-10-18 14:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-18 14:39 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-10-18 15:27 ` Catalin Marinas
2010-10-18 15:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-18 15:35 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-10-18 15:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-18 15:51 ` Catalin Marinas
2010-10-18 15:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-19 23:31 ` Daniel Walker
2010-10-20 6:13 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-10-20 10:00 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-10-20 22:29 ` Bryan Huntsman
2010-10-20 9:53 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-10-20 22:15 ` Daniel Walker
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