History log of /include/linux/rpmsg.h
Revision Date Author Comments
0f9c37b38800c35e83f43949d93bffefff5b43af 07-Jun-2012 Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com> rpmsg: make sure inflight messages don't invoke just-removed callbacks

commit 15fd943af50dbc5f7f4de33835795c72595f7bf4 upstream.

When inbound messages arrive, rpmsg core looks up their associated
endpoint (by destination address) and then invokes their callback.

We've made sure that endpoints will never be de-allocated after they
were found by rpmsg core, but we also need to protect against the
(rare) scenario where the rpmsg driver was just removed, and its
callback function isn't available anymore.

This is achieved by introducing a callback mutex, which must be taken
before the callback is invoked, and, obviously, before it is removed.

Reported-by: Fernando Guzman Lugo <fernando.lugo@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
735129c4609e98fd149cddda50b823e43bab0677 06-Jun-2012 Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com> rpmsg: avoid premature deallocation of endpoints

commit 5a081caa0414b9bbb82c17ffab9d6fe66edbb72f upstream.

When an inbound message arrives, the rpmsg core looks up its
associated endpoint and invokes the registered callback.

If a message arrives while its endpoint is being removed (because
the rpmsg driver was removed, or a recovery of a remote processor
has kicked in) we must ensure atomicity, i.e.:

- Either the ept is removed before it is found

or

- The ept is found but will not be freed until the callback returns

This is achieved by maintaining a per-ept reference count, which,
when drops to zero, will trigger deallocation of the ept.

With this in hand, it is now forbidden to directly deallocate
epts once they have been added to the endpoints idr.

Reported-by: Fernando Guzman Lugo <fernando.lugo@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
bcabbccabffe7326f046f25737ba1084f463c65c 20-Oct-2011 Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com> rpmsg: add virtio-based remote processor messaging bus

Add a virtio-based inter-processor communication bus, which enables
kernel drivers to communicate with entities, running on remote
processors, over shared memory using a simple messaging protocol.

Every pair of AMP processors share two vrings, which are used to send
and receive the messages over shared memory.

The header of every message sent on the rpmsg bus contains src and dst
addresses, which make it possible to multiplex several rpmsg channels on
the same vring.

Every rpmsg channel is a device on this bus. When a channel is added,
and an appropriate rpmsg driver is found and probed, it is also assigned
a local rpmsg address, which is then bound to the driver's callback.

When inbound messages carry the local address of a bound driver,
its callback is invoked by the bus.

This patch provides a kernel interface only; user space interfaces
will be later exposed by kernel users of this rpmsg bus.

Designed with Brian Swetland <swetland@google.com>.

Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (virtio_ids.h)
Cc: Brian Swetland <swetland@google.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>