[PATCH 7/7] tty/hvc_opal: Kick the HVC thread on OPAL console events

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Mar 28 13:36:32 EST 2014


The firmware can notify us when new input data is available, so
let's make sure we wakeup the HVC thread in that case.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
---
 drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_opal.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_opal.c b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_opal.c
index 6496872..e4f92c1 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_opal.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_opal.c
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ static struct hvc_opal_priv *hvc_opal_privs[MAX_NR_HVC_CONSOLES];
 /* For early boot console */
 static struct hvc_opal_priv hvc_opal_boot_priv;
 static u32 hvc_opal_boot_termno;
+static bool hvc_opal_event_registered;
 
 static const struct hv_ops hvc_opal_raw_ops = {
 	.get_chars = opal_get_chars,
@@ -161,6 +162,18 @@ static const struct hv_ops hvc_opal_hvsi_ops = {
 	.tiocmset = hvc_opal_hvsi_tiocmset,
 };
 
+static int hvc_opal_console_event(struct notifier_block *nb,
+				  unsigned long events, void *change)
+{
+	if (events & OPAL_EVENT_CONSOLE_INPUT)
+		hvc_kick();
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static struct notifier_block hvc_opal_console_nb = {
+	.notifier_call	= hvc_opal_console_event,
+};
+
 static int hvc_opal_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
 {
 	const struct hv_ops *ops;
@@ -170,6 +183,7 @@ static int hvc_opal_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
 	unsigned int termno, boot = 0;
 	const __be32 *reg;
 
+
 	if (of_device_is_compatible(dev->dev.of_node, "ibm,opal-console-raw")) {
 		proto = HV_PROTOCOL_RAW;
 		ops = &hvc_opal_raw_ops;
@@ -213,12 +227,18 @@ static int hvc_opal_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
 		dev->dev.of_node->full_name,
 		boot ? " (boot console)" : "");
 
-	/* We don't do IRQ yet */
+	/* We don't do IRQ ... */
 	hp = hvc_alloc(termno, 0, ops, MAX_VIO_PUT_CHARS);
 	if (IS_ERR(hp))
 		return PTR_ERR(hp);
 	dev_set_drvdata(&dev->dev, hp);
 
+	/* ...  but we use OPAL event to kick the console */
+	if (!hvc_opal_event_registered) {
+		opal_notifier_register(&hvc_opal_console_nb);
+		hvc_opal_event_registered = true;
+	}
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -259,6 +279,10 @@ module_init(hvc_opal_init);
 
 static void __exit hvc_opal_exit(void)
 {
+	if (hvc_opal_event_registered)
+		opal_notifier_unregister(&hvc_opal_console_nb);
+	hvc_opal_event_registered = false;
+
 	platform_driver_unregister(&hvc_opal_driver);
 }
 module_exit(hvc_opal_exit);
-- 
1.8.3.2



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