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From: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
	Bjorn Andersson <andersson@kernel.org>,
	linux-remoteproc@vger.kernel.org,
	Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] hwspinlock: add summary in debugfs
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:20:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ajlgtWNBWkCxJjde@ninjato> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ajk_u7TVT-kL8z2A@casper.infradead.org>

On Mon, Jun 22, 2026 at 02:59:23PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2026 at 10:51:59AM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > Renesas R-Car SoCs have their spinlocks inside a unit called MFIS. Up to
> > R-Car Gen4, there was only one MFIS unit on the SoC. Gen5, though, has
> > multiple instances and, thus, multiple spinlock providers. The spinlocks
> > are meant for specific cases (AP<->AP, AP<->RT, AP<->SCP...). For
> > development on these systems, it is helpful to have an overview of
> > registered spinlocks in debugfs. This series adds support for that. The
> > first two patches update the radix-tree header to support more lock
> > types. The third patch fixes a missing RCU annotation for the slot
> > pointer. The fourth patch finally adds the desired functionality.
> > 
> > Because the radix tree seems to have no dedicated tree nor maintainer, I
> > suggest that all these patches go in via hwspinlock. This also keeps the
> > dependencies zero.
> 
> The radix tree is deprecated.  I don't want to add any new functionality
> to it.  Here's a replacement patch to convert hwspinlock to use an
> XArray instead of a radix tree.  Compile tested only.

Wow, thanks a ton! I have a conference coming up but I still hope to be
able to test your patch this week. We will see...


      reply	other threads:[~2026-06-22 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-22  8:51 [PATCH v2 0/4] hwspinlock: add summary in debugfs Wolfram Sang
2026-06-22  8:52 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] radix-tree: add parameter doc for radix_tree_deref_slot_protected() Wolfram Sang
2026-06-22 10:16   ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-06-22  8:52 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] radix-tree: allow more lock types with radix_tree_deref_slot_protected() Wolfram Sang
2026-06-22 10:18   ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-06-22  8:52 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] hwspinlock: annotate slot pointer as RCU sensitive Wolfram Sang
2026-06-22 10:20   ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-06-22  8:52 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] hwspinlock: add summary in debugfs Wolfram Sang
2026-06-22 10:24   ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-06-22 13:59 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] " Matthew Wilcox
2026-06-22 16:20   ` Wolfram Sang [this message]

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