Re: [PATCH 6/7] platform/x86: fujitsu-laptop: More accurately represent the hotkey ring buffer managed by firmware

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Wed Feb 28 2018 - 11:14:03 EST


On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 11:15 PM, MichaÅ KÄpieÅ <kernel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The MAX_HOTKEY_RINGBUFFER_SIZE constant is set to 100, which allows up
> to 100 hotkey events to be drained from the firmware ring buffer upon
> module load. However, no known firmware is capable of holding more than
> 16 hotkey events in its internal ring buffer:

> The RINGBUFFERSIZE constant is set to 40, which allows the module to
> queue up to 40 hotkey events for delivery to user space. As this value
> seems arbitrarily chosen and 16 should be more than enough for any
> practical use case, merge the two aforementioned constants into one
> (HOTKEY_RINGBUFFER_SIZE) in order to simplify code and more accurately
> represent the underlying data structure.

> +#define HOTKEY_RINGBUFFER_SIZE 16

This need the comment or a

BUILD_BUG_ON(!is_power_of_2(...));


> - ret = kfifo_alloc(&priv->fifo, RINGBUFFERSIZE * sizeof(int),
> + ret = kfifo_alloc(&priv->fifo, HOTKEY_RINGBUFFER_SIZE * sizeof(int),
> GFP_KERNEL);

> while (call_fext_func(device, FUNC_BUTTONS, OP_GET_EVENTS,
> 0x0, 0x0) != 0 &&
> - i++ < MAX_HOTKEY_RINGBUFFER_SIZE)
> + i++ < HOTKEY_RINGBUFFER_SIZE)
> ; /* No action, result is discarded */

This looks horrible.
Can it be redone

do {
if (call...() == 0)
break;
} while (i++ < ...);

?

> while ((irb = call_fext_func(device, FUNC_BUTTONS, OP_GET_EVENTS,
> 0x0, 0x0)) != 0 &&
> - i++ < MAX_HOTKEY_RINGBUFFER_SIZE) {
> + i++ < HOTKEY_RINGBUFFER_SIZE) {

Ditto.

> scancode = irb & 0x4ff;
> if (sparse_keymap_entry_from_scancode(priv->input, scancode))
> acpi_fujitsu_laptop_press(device, scancode);


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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko