Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] hwrng: iproc-rng200 - Add Broadcom IPROC RNG driver

[Scott Branden]

Response inline.

On 15-02-25 11:17 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 February 2015 10:16:24 Scott Branden wrote:
> > This adds a driver for random number generator present on Broadcom
> > IPROC devices.
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Ray Jui <rjui@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Scott Branden <sbranden@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The driver looks reasonable overall, I have just one question about
> something that sticks out:
>
> > +	while ((num_remaining > 0) && time_before(jiffies, idle_endtime)) {
> ...
> > +
> > +		/* Are there any random numbers available? */
> > +		if ((ioread32(rng_base + RNG_FIFO_COUNT_OFFSET) &
> > +				RNG_FIFO_COUNT_RNG_FIFO_COUNT_MASK) > 0) {
> ...
> > +		} else {
> > +			if (!wait)
> > +				/* Cannot wait, return immediately */
> > +				return max - num_remaining;
> > +
> > +			/* Can wait, give others chance to run */
> > +			cpu_relax();
> > +		}
> > +	}
> > +
>
> It looks like you do a busy-loop around cpu_relax here if asked to wait.
> Is this intentional? I would normally expect either cond_resched() or
> some msleep() instead.

This code was following examples of other open source drivers - bcm2835 
and exynos both use cpu_relax.  I'll have to look into this more to 
understand.

> 	Arnd

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