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Lars-Peter Clausen
c80b8ea9b4 iio:triggered-buffer: Remove redundant call to iio_sw_buffer_preenable().
The equivalent of iio_sw_buffer_preenable() is now done in the IIO buffer core,
so there is no need to do this from the driver anymore.

Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
2013-10-16 19:12:47 +01:00
Lars-Peter Clausen
9e69c935fa iio: Add reference counting for buffers
Since the buffer is accessed by userspace we can not just free the buffers
memory once we are done with it in kernel space. There might still be open file
descriptors and userspace still might be accessing the buffer. This patch adds
support for reference counting to the IIO buffers. When a buffer is created and
initialized its initial reference count is set to 1. Instead of freeing the
memory of the buffer the buffer's _free() function will drop that reference
again. But only after the last reference to the buffer has been dropped the
buffer the buffer's memory will be freed. The IIO device will take a reference
to its primary buffer. The patch adds a small helper function for this called
iio_device_attach_buffer() which will get a reference to the buffer and assign
the buffer to the IIO device. This function must be used instead of assigning
the buffer to the device by hand. The reference is only dropped once the IIO
device is freed and we can be sure that there are no more open file handles. A
reference to a buffer will also be taken whenever the buffer is active to avoid
the buffer being freed while data is still being send to it.

Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
2013-10-12 12:04:01 +01:00
Lars-Peter Clausen
23f2d735a9 iio: Add helper function for initializing triggered buffers
Add a helper function for executing the common tasks which are usually involved
in setting up a simple software ringbuffer. It will allocate the buffer,
allocate the pollfunc and register the buffer.

Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-06-18 17:26:09 -07:00