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author | Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> | 2012-09-27 21:46:09 +0200 |
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committer | Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> | 2012-09-28 11:47:42 +0200 |
commit | 4d50c44381c981c9caa74e82ab894d4938dac9ca (patch) | |
tree | 58ff020b13eccd0db85c6796300dd576544b9349 /include/linux/firewire.h | |
parent | 35202f7d8420fff586b372422a2419affeaba8ef (diff) | |
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firewire: addendum to address handler RCU conversion
Follow up on commit c285f6ff6787 "firewire: remove global lock around
address handlers, convert to RCU":
- address_handler_lock no longer serializes the address handler, only
its function to serialize updates to the list of handlers remains.
Rename the lock to address_handler_list_lock.
- Callers of fw_core_remove_address_handler() must be able to sleep.
Comment on this in the API documentation.
- The counterpart fw_core_add_address_handler() is by nature something
which is used in process context. Replace spin_lock_bh() by
spin_lock() in fw_core_add_address_handler() and in
fw_core_remove_address_handler(), and document that process context
is now required for fw_core_add_address_handler().
- Extend the documentation of fw_address_callback_t.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/firewire.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/firewire.h | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/firewire.h b/include/linux/firewire.h index db04ec5121cb..191501afd7fb 100644 --- a/include/linux/firewire.h +++ b/include/linux/firewire.h @@ -265,8 +265,16 @@ typedef void (*fw_transaction_callback_t)(struct fw_card *card, int rcode, void *data, size_t length, void *callback_data); /* - * Important note: Except for the FCP registers, the callback must guarantee - * that either fw_send_response() or kfree() is called on the @request. + * This callback handles an inbound request subaction. It is called in + * RCU read-side context, therefore must not sleep. + * + * The callback should not initiate outbound request subactions directly. + * Otherwise there is a danger of recursion of inbound and outbound + * transactions from and to the local node. + * + * The callback is responsible that either fw_send_response() or kfree() + * is called on the @request, except for FCP registers for which the core + * takes care of that. */ typedef void (*fw_address_callback_t)(struct fw_card *card, struct fw_request *request, |