[PATCH] media: cedrus: Remove global IRQ spin lock from the driver

Paul Kocialkowski paul.kocialkowski at bootlin.com
Thu Nov 15 14:39:55 UTC 2018


We initially introduced a spin lock to ensure that the VPU registers
are not accessed concurrently between our setup function and IRQ
handler. Because the V4L2 M2M API only allows one job to run at a time
and our jobs are completed following the IRQ handler, there is actually
no chance of an interrupt happening while programming the VPU registers.

In addition, holding a spin lock is problematic when doing more than
simply configuring the registers in the setup operation. H.265 support
currently involves a CMA allocation in that step, which is not
compatible with an atomic context.

As a result, remove the global IRQ spin lock.

Signed-off-by: Paul Kocialkowski <paul.kocialkowski at bootlin.com>
---
 drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c       |  1 -
 drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.h       |  2 --
 drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_dec.c   |  9 ---------
 drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_hw.c    | 13 +------------
 drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_video.c |  5 -----
 5 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 29 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c
index dd121f66fa2d..42c6f09bd75a 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c
@@ -279,7 +279,6 @@ static int cedrus_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	dev->dec_ops[CEDRUS_CODEC_MPEG2] = &cedrus_dec_ops_mpeg2;
 
 	mutex_init(&dev->dev_mutex);
-	spin_lock_init(&dev->irq_lock);
 
 	ret = v4l2_device_register(&pdev->dev, &dev->v4l2_dev);
 	if (ret) {
diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.h b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.h
index 3f61248c57ac..3acfdcf83691 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.h
@@ -105,8 +105,6 @@ struct cedrus_dev {
 
 	/* Device file mutex */
 	struct mutex		dev_mutex;
-	/* Interrupt spinlock */
-	spinlock_t		irq_lock;
 
 	void __iomem		*base;
 
diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_dec.c b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_dec.c
index e40180a33951..6c5e310a7cf7 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_dec.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_dec.c
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ void cedrus_device_run(void *priv)
 	struct cedrus_dev *dev = ctx->dev;
 	struct cedrus_run run = { 0 };
 	struct media_request *src_req;
-	unsigned long flags;
 
 	run.src = v4l2_m2m_next_src_buf(ctx->fh.m2m_ctx);
 	run.dst = v4l2_m2m_next_dst_buf(ctx->fh.m2m_ctx);
@@ -39,8 +38,6 @@ void cedrus_device_run(void *priv)
 	if (src_req)
 		v4l2_ctrl_request_setup(src_req, &ctx->hdl);
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&ctx->dev->irq_lock, flags);
-
 	switch (ctx->src_fmt.pixelformat) {
 	case V4L2_PIX_FMT_MPEG2_SLICE:
 		run.mpeg2.slice_params = cedrus_find_control_data(ctx,
@@ -55,16 +52,10 @@ void cedrus_device_run(void *priv)
 
 	dev->dec_ops[ctx->current_codec]->setup(ctx, &run);
 
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ctx->dev->irq_lock, flags);
-
 	/* Complete request(s) controls if needed. */
 
 	if (src_req)
 		v4l2_ctrl_request_complete(src_req, &ctx->hdl);
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&ctx->dev->irq_lock, flags);
-
 	dev->dec_ops[ctx->current_codec]->trigger(ctx);
-
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ctx->dev->irq_lock, flags);
 }
diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_hw.c b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_hw.c
index 32adbcbe6175..0662906aab57 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_hw.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_hw.c
@@ -122,24 +122,17 @@ static irqreturn_t cedrus_irq(int irq, void *data)
 	struct vb2_v4l2_buffer *src_buf, *dst_buf;
 	enum vb2_buffer_state state;
 	enum cedrus_irq_status status;
-	unsigned long flags;
-
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&dev->irq_lock, flags);
 
 	ctx = v4l2_m2m_get_curr_priv(dev->m2m_dev);
 	if (!ctx) {
 		v4l2_err(&dev->v4l2_dev,
 			 "Instance released before the end of transaction\n");
-		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->irq_lock, flags);
-
 		return IRQ_NONE;
 	}
 
 	status = dev->dec_ops[ctx->current_codec]->irq_status(ctx);
-	if (status == CEDRUS_IRQ_NONE) {
-		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->irq_lock, flags);
+	if (status == CEDRUS_IRQ_NONE)
 		return IRQ_NONE;
-	}
 
 	dev->dec_ops[ctx->current_codec]->irq_disable(ctx);
 	dev->dec_ops[ctx->current_codec]->irq_clear(ctx);
@@ -150,8 +143,6 @@ static irqreturn_t cedrus_irq(int irq, void *data)
 	if (!src_buf || !dst_buf) {
 		v4l2_err(&dev->v4l2_dev,
 			 "Missing source and/or destination buffers\n");
-		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->irq_lock, flags);
-
 		return IRQ_HANDLED;
 	}
 
@@ -163,8 +154,6 @@ static irqreturn_t cedrus_irq(int irq, void *data)
 	v4l2_m2m_buf_done(src_buf, state);
 	v4l2_m2m_buf_done(dst_buf, state);
 
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->irq_lock, flags);
-
 	return IRQ_WAKE_THREAD;
 }
 
diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_video.c b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_video.c
index 5c5fce678b93..8721b4a7d496 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_video.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_video.c
@@ -380,18 +380,13 @@ static void cedrus_queue_cleanup(struct vb2_queue *vq, u32 state)
 {
 	struct cedrus_ctx *ctx = vb2_get_drv_priv(vq);
 	struct vb2_v4l2_buffer *vbuf;
-	unsigned long flags;
 
 	for (;;) {
-		spin_lock_irqsave(&ctx->dev->irq_lock, flags);
-
 		if (V4L2_TYPE_IS_OUTPUT(vq->type))
 			vbuf = v4l2_m2m_src_buf_remove(ctx->fh.m2m_ctx);
 		else
 			vbuf = v4l2_m2m_dst_buf_remove(ctx->fh.m2m_ctx);
 
-		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ctx->dev->irq_lock, flags);
-
 		if (!vbuf)
 			return;
 
-- 
2.19.1



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