linux_dsm_epyc7002/drivers/iio/trigger/Kconfig
Jonathan Cameron bc2e1126ec iio:trigger: Experimental kthread tight loop trigger (thread only)
This patch is in response to that of
Gregor Boirie <gregor.boirie@parrot.com>
who proposed using a tight kthread within a device driver (be it with the
support factored out into a helper library) in order to basically spin as
fast as possible.

It is meant as a talking point rather than a formal proposal of the code
(though we are heading towards that I think).
Also gives people some working code to mess around with.

I proposed that this could be done with a trigger with a few constraints
and this is the proof (be it ugly) of that.

There are some constraints though, some of which we would want to relax
if this were to move forward.

* Will only run the thread part of the registered pollfunc.  This is to
  avoid the overhead of jumping in and out of interrupt context.  Is the
  overhead significant?  Not certain but feels like it should be!

* This limitation precludes any device that 'must' do some work in
  interrupt context.  However, that is true of few if any drivers and
  I suspect that any that do will be restricted to using triggers they
  provide themselves.  Usually we have a top half mainly to grab a
  timestamp as soon after the dataready type signal as possible.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@intel.com>
2016-06-03 13:18:44 +01:00

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# Industrial I/O standalone triggers
#
# When adding new entries keep the list in alphabetical order
menu "Triggers - standalone"
config IIO_HRTIMER_TRIGGER
tristate "High resolution timer trigger"
depends on IIO_SW_TRIGGER
help
Provides a frequency based IIO trigger using high resolution
timers as interrupt source.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called iio-trig-hrtimer.
config IIO_INTERRUPT_TRIGGER
tristate "Generic interrupt trigger"
help
Provides support for using an interrupt of any type as an IIO
trigger. This may be provided by a gpio driver for example.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called iio-trig-interrupt.
config IIO_TIGHTLOOP_TRIGGER
tristate "A kthread based hammering loop trigger"
depends on IIO_SW_TRIGGER
help
An experimental trigger, used to allow sensors to be sampled as fast
as possible under the limitations of whatever else is going on.
Uses a tight loop in a kthread. Will only work with lower half only
trigger consumers.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called iio-trig-loop.
config IIO_SYSFS_TRIGGER
tristate "SYSFS trigger"
depends on SYSFS
select IRQ_WORK
help
Provides support for using SYSFS entries as IIO triggers.
If unsure, say N (but it's safe to say "Y").
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called iio-trig-sysfs.
endmenu