On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 12:13:26PM +0000, Alexandru Elisei wrote:
> What started this series is Andre's SPI and group interrupts tests [1],
> which prompted me to attempt to rewrite check_acked() so it's more flexible
> and not so complicated to review. When I was doing that I noticed that the
> message passing pattern for accesses to the acked, bad_irq and bad_sender
> arrays didn't look quite right, and that turned into the first 7 patches of
> the series. Even though the diffs are relatively small, they are not
> trivial and the reviewer can skip them for the more palatable patches that
> follow. I would still appreciate someone having a look at the memory
> ordering fixes.
>
> Patch #8 ("Split check_acked() into two functions") is where check_acked()
> is reworked with an eye towards supporting different timeout values or
> silent reporting without adding too many arguments to check_acked().
>
> After changing the IPI tests, I turned my attention to the LPI tests, which
> followed the same memory synchronization patterns, but invented their own
> interrupt handler and testing functions. Instead of redoing the work that I
> did for the IPI tests, I decided to convert the LPI tests to use the same
> infrastructure.
>
Applied to arm/queue
https://gitlab.com/rhdrjones/kvm-unit-tests/-/tree/arm/queue
Thanks,
drew
