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2012-07-04rpmsg: make sure inflight messages don't invoke just-removed callbacksOhad Ben-Cohen
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. Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Reported-by: Fernando Guzman Lugo <fernando.lugo@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
2012-07-04rpmsg: avoid premature deallocation of endpointsOhad Ben-Cohen
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. Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Reported-by: Fernando Guzman Lugo <fernando.lugo@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
2012-02-08rpmsg: add virtio-based remote processor messaging busOhad Ben-Cohen
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>