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| author | Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com> | 2012-07-02 12:41:16 +0400 |
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| committer | Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com> | 2012-07-06 01:53:25 +0400 |
| commit | c6b5a27628faf6657b741d828a1462d832d0dbc5 (patch) | |
| tree | 3f5bcb10c6d2b1e395330536476d471415632832 /Documentation/remoteproc.txt | |
| parent | 7183a2a799b81490354973117ecd810c23cdc668 (diff) | |
| download | linux-c6b5a27628faf6657b741d828a1462d832d0dbc5.tar.xz | |
remoteproc: simplify unregister/free interfaces
Simplify the unregister/free interfaces, and make them easier
to understand and use, by moving to a symmetric and consistent
alloc() -> register() -> unregister() -> free() flow.
To create and register an rproc instance, one needed to invoke
rproc_alloc() followed by rproc_register().
To unregister and free an rproc instance, one now needs to invoke
rproc_unregister() followed by rproc_free().
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/remoteproc.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/remoteproc.txt | 21 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/remoteproc.txt b/Documentation/remoteproc.txt index 70a048cd3fa3..ad6ded4bca5c 100644 --- a/Documentation/remoteproc.txt +++ b/Documentation/remoteproc.txt @@ -120,14 +120,14 @@ int dummy_rproc_example(struct rproc *my_rproc) On success, the new rproc is returned, and on failure, NULL. Note: _never_ directly deallocate @rproc, even if it was not registered - yet. Instead, if you just need to unroll rproc_alloc(), use rproc_free(). + yet. Instead, when you need to unroll rproc_alloc(), use rproc_free(). void rproc_free(struct rproc *rproc) - Free an rproc handle that was allocated by rproc_alloc. - This function should _only_ be used if @rproc was only allocated, - but not registered yet. - If @rproc was already successfully registered (by calling - rproc_register()), then use rproc_unregister() instead. + This function essentially unrolls rproc_alloc(), by decrementing the + rproc's refcount. It doesn't directly free rproc; that would happen + only if there are no other references to rproc and its refcount now + dropped to zero. int rproc_register(struct rproc *rproc) - Register @rproc with the remoteproc framework, after it has been @@ -143,19 +143,14 @@ int dummy_rproc_example(struct rproc *my_rproc) probed. int rproc_unregister(struct rproc *rproc) - - Unregister a remote processor, and decrement its refcount. - If its refcount drops to zero, then @rproc will be freed. If not, - it will be freed later once the last reference is dropped. - + - Unroll rproc_register(). This function should be called when the platform specific rproc implementation decides to remove the rproc device. it should _only_ be called if a previous invocation of rproc_register() has completed successfully. - After rproc_unregister() returns, @rproc is _not_ valid anymore and - it shouldn't be used. More specifically, don't call rproc_free() - or try to directly free @rproc after rproc_unregister() returns; - none of these are needed, and calling them is a bug. + After rproc_unregister() returns, @rproc is still valid, and its + last refcount should be decremented by calling rproc_free(). Returns 0 on success and -EINVAL if @rproc isn't valid. |