Re: [PATCH v5 1/8] regmap: Support atomic forced uncached reads

From: Mark Brown
Date: Mon Jun 14 2021 - 06:43:51 EST


On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 11:12:31PM +0200, Sander Vanheule wrote:

> When a user wants to read a single uncached register, cache bypassing
> can be enabled. However, this is not atomic unless an external lock is
> used for the regmap. When using regcache_cache_bypass, the original
> bypass state also cannot be restored.

> Add support to atomically read a single uncached value, bypassing any
> regmap cache.

The expectation here is that if there is a need to do this for some
reason the user can arrange to do this for itself - if something is
happening that makes a normally non-volatile register volatile then
it probably needs higher level coordination. What's the use case?

> +int regmap_read_bypassed(struct regmap *map, unsigned int reg, unsigned int *val)

Bypassed what? I think Andy's naming suggestion was much better.

Please also keep to 80 columns if you can, I know the requirements got
relaxed a bit but no need to do it excessively.

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