On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 10:54:44AM -0800, Jae Hyun Yoo wrote: > In multi-master environment, this driver's master cannot know > exactly when a peer master sends data to this driver's slave so > cases can be happened that this master tries sending data through > the master_xfer function but slave data from a peer master is still > being processed or slave xfer is started by a peer immediately > after it queues a master command. To support multi-master use cases > properly, this H/W provides arbitration in physical level and it > provides priority based command handling too to avoid conflicts in > multi-master environment, means that if a master and a slave events > happen at the same time, H/W will handle a higher priority event > first and a pending event will be handled when bus comes back to > the idle state. > > To support this H/W feature properly, this patch adds the 'pending' > state of master and its handling code so that the pending master > xfer can be continued after slave operation properly. > > Signed-off-by: Jae Hyun Yoo <jae.hyun.yoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@xxxxxxxxxx> Applied to for-next, thanks!
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