Re: [PATCH 13/25] scsi: hisi_sas: add path from phyup irq to SAS framework

John Garry
2015-10-20T09:09:06Z

>> We could create a work_struct for each event, which would be fine.
>
> Yes, that would be the normal way to do it. You initialize the work
> structures from the initial probe function to have the right
> callbacks, and then you just queue the right one when you need to
> defer an event.
>
> How many different events are there?
>
We currently only support processing 2 events in the workqueue: phy up
and control phy. However we may want to use more in the future, like
hotplug (for phy down) event.

>> However we would sometimes still need some way of passing data to
>> the event, like the phy control example.
>
> Do you mean the 'int func' argument to hisi_sas_control_phy_work?
Yes
> It sounds like that would again just be more different work_structs.
>
> At some point that might get silly (having 10 or more work structs
> per phy), but then you could restructure the code to use something
> other that work queues to get from interrupt context to process
> context, e.g. a threaded interrupt handler.
I'll check on this. We need to consider how to pass the argument for the
control phy case.
>
> Note that the current code is not only unusual but also fragile
> because you rely on GFP_ATOMIC memory allocations from the interrupt
> handler, and they tend to eventually fail.
Understood. For what it's worth, I was just following other SAS drivers
as a refernce: see pm8001_handle_event() and mvs_handle_event()

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Thanks, John