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net: wwan: Allow WWAN drivers to provide blocking tx and poll function
At the moment, the WWAN core provides wwan_port_txon/off() to implement
blocking writes. The tx() port operation should not block, instead
wwan_port_txon/off() should be called when the TX queue is full or has
free space again.

However, in some cases it is not straightforward to make use of that
functionality. For example, the RPMSG API used by rpmsg_wwan_ctrl.c
does not provide any way to be notified when the TX queue has space
again. Instead, it only provides the following operations:

  - rpmsg_send(): blocking write (wait until there is space)
  - rpmsg_trysend(): non-blocking write (return error if no space)
  - rpmsg_poll(): set poll flags depending on TX queue state

Generally that's totally sufficient for implementing a char device,
but it does not fit well to the currently provided WWAN port ops.

Most of the time, using the non-blocking rpmsg_trysend() in the
WWAN tx() port operation works just fine. However, with high-frequent
writes to the char device it is possible to trigger a situation
where this causes issues. For example, consider the following
(somewhat unrealistic) example:

 # dd if=/dev/zero bs=1000 of=/dev/wwan0p2QMI
 dd: error writing '/dev/wwan0p2QMI': Resource temporarily unavailable
 1+0 records out

This fails immediately after writing the first record. It's likely
only a matter of time until this triggers issues for some real application
(e.g. ModemManager sending a lot of large QMI packets).

The rpmsg_char device does not have this problem, because it uses
rpmsg_trysend() and rpmsg_poll() to support non-blocking operations.
Make it possible to use the same in the RPMSG WWAN driver by extending
the tx() operation with a "nonblock" parameter and adding an optional
tx_poll() callback. This integrates nicely with the RPMSG API
and does not break other WWAN drivers.

With these changes, the dd example above blocks instead of exiting
with an error.

Cc: Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephan Gerhold <stephan@gerhold.net>
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stephan-gh authored and intel-lab-lkp committed Jun 18, 2021
1 parent 3b080f8 commit 3e8b96e21bab08cfd3136fb7348c4cb77815e969
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@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ static void ipc_port_ctrl_stop(struct wwan_port *port)
}

/* transfer control data to modem */
static int ipc_port_ctrl_tx(struct wwan_port *port, struct sk_buff *skb)
static int ipc_port_ctrl_tx(struct wwan_port *port, struct sk_buff *skb,
bool nonblock)
{
struct iosm_cdev *ipc_port = wwan_port_get_drvdata(port);

@@ -139,7 +139,8 @@ static void mhi_wwan_ctrl_stop(struct wwan_port *port)
mhi_unprepare_from_transfer(mhiwwan->mhi_dev);
}

static int mhi_wwan_ctrl_tx(struct wwan_port *port, struct sk_buff *skb)
static int mhi_wwan_ctrl_tx(struct wwan_port *port, struct sk_buff *skb,
bool nonblock)
{
struct mhi_wwan_dev *mhiwwan = wwan_port_get_drvdata(port);
int ret;
@@ -54,23 +54,36 @@ static void rpmsg_wwan_ctrl_stop(struct wwan_port *port)
rpwwan->ept = NULL;
}

static int rpmsg_wwan_ctrl_tx(struct wwan_port *port, struct sk_buff *skb)
static int rpmsg_wwan_ctrl_tx(struct wwan_port *port, struct sk_buff *skb,
bool nonblock)
{
struct rpmsg_wwan_dev *rpwwan = wwan_port_get_drvdata(port);
int ret;

ret = rpmsg_trysend(rpwwan->ept, skb->data, skb->len);
if (nonblock)
ret = rpmsg_trysend(rpwwan->ept, skb->data, skb->len);
else
ret = rpmsg_send(rpwwan->ept, skb->data, skb->len);
if (ret)
return ret;

consume_skb(skb);
return 0;
}

static __poll_t rpmsg_wwan_ctrl_tx_poll(struct wwan_port *port,
struct file *filp, poll_table *wait)
{
struct rpmsg_wwan_dev *rpwwan = wwan_port_get_drvdata(port);

return rpmsg_poll(rpwwan->ept, filp, wait);
}

static const struct wwan_port_ops rpmsg_wwan_pops = {
.start = rpmsg_wwan_ctrl_start,
.stop = rpmsg_wwan_ctrl_stop,
.tx = rpmsg_wwan_ctrl_tx,
.tx_poll = rpmsg_wwan_ctrl_tx_poll,
};

static struct device *rpmsg_wwan_find_parent(struct device *dev)
@@ -500,7 +500,8 @@ static void wwan_port_op_stop(struct wwan_port *port)
mutex_unlock(&port->ops_lock);
}

static int wwan_port_op_tx(struct wwan_port *port, struct sk_buff *skb)
static int wwan_port_op_tx(struct wwan_port *port, struct sk_buff *skb,
bool nonblock)
{
int ret;

@@ -510,7 +511,7 @@ static int wwan_port_op_tx(struct wwan_port *port, struct sk_buff *skb)
goto out_unlock;
}

ret = port->ops->tx(port, skb);
ret = port->ops->tx(port, skb, nonblock);

out_unlock:
mutex_unlock(&port->ops_lock);
@@ -637,7 +638,7 @@ static ssize_t wwan_port_fops_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf,
return -EFAULT;
}

ret = wwan_port_op_tx(port, skb);
ret = wwan_port_op_tx(port, skb, !!(filp->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK));
if (ret) {
kfree_skb(skb);
return ret;
@@ -653,7 +654,9 @@ static __poll_t wwan_port_fops_poll(struct file *filp, poll_table *wait)

poll_wait(filp, &port->waitqueue, wait);

if (!is_write_blocked(port))
if (port->ops && port->ops->tx_poll)
mask |= port->ops->tx_poll(port, filp, wait);
else if (!is_write_blocked(port))
mask |= EPOLLOUT | EPOLLWRNORM;
if (!is_read_blocked(port))
mask |= EPOLLIN | EPOLLRDNORM;
@@ -83,7 +83,8 @@ static void wwan_hwsim_port_stop(struct wwan_port *wport)
*
* Be aware that this processor is not fully V.250 compliant.
*/
static int wwan_hwsim_port_tx(struct wwan_port *wport, struct sk_buff *in)
static int wwan_hwsim_port_tx(struct wwan_port *wport, struct sk_buff *in,
bool nonblock)
{
struct wwan_hwsim_port *port = wwan_port_get_drvdata(wport);
struct sk_buff *out;
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@

#include <linux/device.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/poll.h>
#include <linux/skbuff.h>
#include <linux/netlink.h>

@@ -38,17 +39,21 @@ enum wwan_port_type {
struct wwan_port;

/** struct wwan_port_ops - The WWAN port operations
* @start: The routine for starting the WWAN port device.
* @stop: The routine for stopping the WWAN port device.
* @start: The routine for starting the WWAN port device. Required.
* @stop: The routine for stopping the WWAN port device. Required.
* @tx: The routine that sends WWAN port protocol data to the device.
* May only block if nonblock is false. Required.
* @tx_poll: A routine to set additional TX poll flags. Optional.
*
* The wwan_port_ops structure contains a list of low-level operations
* that control a WWAN port device. All functions are mandatory.
* that control a WWAN port device.
*/
struct wwan_port_ops {
int (*start)(struct wwan_port *port);
void (*stop)(struct wwan_port *port);
int (*tx)(struct wwan_port *port, struct sk_buff *skb);
int (*tx)(struct wwan_port *port, struct sk_buff *skb, bool nonblock);
__poll_t (*tx_poll)(struct wwan_port *port, struct file *filp,
poll_table *wait);
};

/**

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