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Currently, each SSAM event notifier is directly tied to one group of events. This makes sense as registering a notifier will automatically take care of enabling the corresponding event group and normally drivers only need notifications for a very limited number of events, associated with different callbacks for each group. However, there are rare cases, especially for debugging, when we want to get notifications for a whole event target category instead of just a single group of events in that category. Registering multiple notifiers, i.e. one per group, may be infeasible due to two issues: a) we might not know every event enable/disable specification as some events are auto-enabled by the EC and b) forwarding this to the same callback will lead to duplicate events as we might not know the full event specification to perform the appropriate filtering. This commit introduces observer-notifiers, which are notifiers that are not tied to a specific event group and do not attempt to manage any events. In other words, they can be registered without enabling any event group or incrementing the corresponding reference count and just act as silent observers, listening to all currently/previously enabled events based on their match-specification. Essentially, this allows us to register one single notifier for a full event target category, meaning that we can process all events of that target category in a single callback without duplication. Specifically, this will be used in the cdev debug interface to forward events to user-space via a device file from which the events can be read. Signed-off-by: Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210604134755.535590-2-luzmaximilian@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> |
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