Re: Re: [PATCH v2 06/11] i2c: nomadik: support short xfer timeouts using waitqueue & hrtimer

From: Andi Shyti
Date: Mon Mar 04 2024 - 10:11:23 EST


Hi Theo,

On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 03:32:38PM +0100, Théo Lebrun wrote:
> On Mon Mar 4, 2024 at 2:54 PM CET, Andi Shyti wrote:
> > > +static bool nmk_i2c_wait_xfer_done(struct nmk_i2c_dev *priv)
> > > +{
> > > + if (priv->timeout_usecs < jiffies_to_usecs(1)) {
> > > + unsigned long timeout_usecs = priv->timeout_usecs;
> > > + ktime_t timeout = ktime_set(0, timeout_usecs * NSEC_PER_USEC);
> > > +
> > > + wait_event_hrtimeout(priv->xfer_wq, priv->xfer_done, timeout);
> > > + } else {
> > > + unsigned long timeout = usecs_to_jiffies(priv->timeout_usecs);
> > > +
> > > + wait_event_timeout(priv->xfer_wq, priv->xfer_done, timeout);
> > > + }
> > > +
> > > + return priv->xfer_done;
> >
> > You could eventually write this as
> >
> > static bool nmk_i2c_wait_xfer_done(struct nmk_i2c_dev *priv)
> > {
> > if (priv->timeout_usecs < jiffies_to_usecs(1)) {
> > ...
> >
> > return !wait_event_hrtimeout(...);
> > }
> >
> > ...
> > return wait_event_timeout(...);
> > }
> >
> > It looks a bit cleaner to me... your choice.
>
> The full block would become:
>
> static bool nmk_i2c_wait_xfer_done(struct nmk_i2c_dev *priv)
> {
> if (priv->timeout_usecs < jiffies_to_usecs(1)) {
> unsigned long timeout_usecs = priv->timeout_usecs;
> ktime_t timeout = ktime_set(0, timeout_usecs * NSEC_PER_USEC);
>
> return !wait_event_hrtimeout(priv->xfer_wq, priv->xfer_done,
> timeout);
> }
>
> return wait_event_timeout(priv->xfer_wq, priv->xfer_done,
> usecs_to_jiffies(priv->timeout_usecs));
> }
>
> Three things:
>
> - Deindenting the jiffy timeout case means no variable declaration
> after the if-block. This is fine from my point-of-view.
>
> - It means we depend on the half-mess that are return values from
> wait_event_*timeout() macros. I wanted to avoid that because it
> looks like an error when you read the above code and see one is
> negated while the other is not.
>
> - Also, I'm not confident in casting either return value to bool; what
> happens if either macro returns an error? This is a theoretical case
> that shouldn't happen, but behavior might change at some point or
> bugs could occur. We know priv->xfer_done will give us the right
> answer.
>
> My preference still goes to the original version, but I'm happy we are
> having a discussion about this code block.

sure... it's not a binding comment.

Andi