Re: [PATCH 07/15] PM QoS: add a global notification mechanism for the device constraints

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Hi,

On Tuesday, August 16, 2011, jean.pihet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Jean Pihet <j-pihet@xxxxxx>
> 
> Add a global notification chain that gets called upon changes to the
> aggregated constraint value for any device.
> The notification callbacks are passing the full constraint request data
> in order for the callees to have access to it. The current use is for the
> platform low-level code to access the target device of the constraint.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jean Pihet <j-pihet@xxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/base/power/qos.c |   84 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>  include/linux/pm_qos.h   |   11 ++++++
>  kernel/power/qos.c       |    2 +-
>  3 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/base/power/qos.c b/drivers/base/power/qos.c
> index 304d68d..b52b3e8 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/power/qos.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/power/qos.c
> @@ -8,6 +8,12 @@
>   *
>   * This QoS design is best effort based. Dependents register their QoS needs.
>   * Watchers register to keep track of the current QoS needs of the system.
> + * Watchers can register different types of notification callbacks:
> + *  . a per-device notification callback using the dev_pm_qos_*_notifier API.
> + *    The notification chain data is stored in the per-device constraint
> + *    data struct.
> + *  . a system-wide notification callback using the dev_pm_qos_*_global_notifier
> + *    API. The notification chain data is stored in a static variable.
>   *
>   * Note about the per-device constraint data struct allocation:
>   * . The per-device constraints data struct ptr is tored into the device
> @@ -36,8 +42,32 @@
>  
>  
>  static DEFINE_MUTEX(dev_pm_qos_mtx);
> +static BLOCKING_NOTIFIER_HEAD(dev_pm_notifiers);
>  static void dev_pm_qos_constraints_allocate(struct device *dev);
>  
> +/*
> + * Update the constraints list using the PM QoS core code and
> + * if needed call the per-device and the global notification callbacks
> + */

Well, if you add kerneldoc comments, please make them follow the standard,
even if that's a static function.

> +static int _apply_constraint(struct dev_pm_qos_request *req,

The initial underscore looks odd and is not really necessary.  Please drop it.

The rest of the patch looks fine.

Thanks,
Rafael
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