On 2011-08-29 17:42, Jan Kiszka wrote: > I still don't get what prevents converting ipr to allow plain mutex > synchronization. My vision is: > - push reset-on-error of ipr into workqueue (or threaded IRQ?) I'm starting to like your proposal: I had a look at ipr, but it turned out to be anything but trivial to convert that driver. It runs its complete state machine under spin_lock_irq, and the functions calling pci_block/unblock_user_cfg_access are deep inside this thing. I have no hardware to test whatever change, and I feel a bit uncomfortable asking Brian to redesign his driver that massively. So back to your idea: I would generalize pci_block_user_cfg_access to pci_block_cfg_access. It should fail when some other site already holds the access lock, but it should remain non-blocking - for the sake of ipr. We should still provide generic pci-2.3 IRQ masking services, but that could be done in a second step. I could have a look at this. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
