Hi William, On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 09:13:41PM +0900, William Breathitt Gray wrote: > This patch introduces a character device interface for the Counter > subsystem. Device data is exposed through standard character device read > operations. Device data is gathered when a Counter event is pushed by > the respective Counter device driver. Configuration is handled via ioctl > operations on the respective Counter character device node. ..... > +/** > + * counter_push_event - queue event for userspace reading > + * @counter: pointer to Counter structure > + * @event: triggered event > + * @channel: event channel > + * > + * Note: If no one is watching for the respective event, it is silently > + * discarded. > + */ > +void counter_push_event(struct counter_device *const counter, const u8 event, > + const u8 channel) > +{ > + struct counter_event ev = {0}; > + unsigned int copied = 0; > + unsigned long flags; > + struct counter_event_node *event_node; > + struct counter_comp_node *comp_node; > + > + ev.timestamp = ktime_get_ns(); > + ev.watch.event = event; > + ev.watch.channel = channel; > + > + /* Could be in an interrupt context, so use a raw spin lock */ > + raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&counter->events_list_lock, flags); > + > + /* Search for event in the list */ > + list_for_each_entry(event_node, &counter->events_list, l) > + if (event_node->event == event && > + event_node->channel == channel) > + break; > + > + /* If event is not in the list */ > + if (&event_node->l == &counter->events_list) > + goto exit_early; To cover my "interrupt-counter" use case, I added following line here to convert the tail drop fifo to the head drop fifo: + list_for_each_entry(comp_node, &event_node->comp_list, l) + to_copy += sizeof(ev); + + while (kfifo_avail(&counter->events) < to_copy) + kfifo_skip(&counter->events); May be it make sense to make it optional and integrate in to you patches before it goes mainline? Regards, Oleksij -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Steuerwalder Str. 21 | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 |