Re: [RFC 1/4] remoteproc: Bugfix assign device address to carveout (noiommu)

[Ohad Ben-Cohen]

Hi Sjur,

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Sjur Brændeland <sjurbren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I just posted a RFC patch-set on this to linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Review comments is welcomed :-)

Great, will take a look, thanks a lot!

> I have run into one issue with the dynamically allocated notifyids. When
> allocating multiple virtio devices, only ids for the first virtio
> device is allocated
> when the remote device is started.  This is fails for me, because I need to know
> all of the kick-ids before starting the remote device.
>
> Do you have any preference on how to solve this, Ohad?
>
> One idea could be to call rproc->start from a work-queue and wait for completion
> of firmware loading before actually starting. In this way we will not
> trigger start-up
> of the remote device before all virtio devices and their kick-ids are allocated.

Yes, it would work, but I'm not sure it would be very intuitive for
others to understand why we spawn a new context upon powering on the
processor.

Seems to me we may want instead to fix the problem directly by
splitting rproc_handle_vdev() to two stages, where the second stage
will only include the rproc_add_virtio_dev() part, and will be invoked
after all vdev have been processed.

Will that work for you ?

Thanks,
Ohad.
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