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Commit 3ed8e1c2 authored by Badhri Jagan Sridharan's avatar Badhri Jagan Sridharan Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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usb: typec: tcpm: Migrate workqueue to RT priority for processing events

"tReceiverResponse 15 ms Section 6.6.2
The receiver of a Message requiring a response Shall respond
within tReceiverResponse in order to ensure that the
sender’s SenderResponseTimer does not expire."

When the cpu complex is busy running other lower priority
work items, TCPM's work queue sometimes does not get scheduled
on time to meet the above requirement from the spec.
Moving to kthread_work apis to run with real time priority.

Further, as observed in 1ff68820

, moving to hrtimers to
overcome scheduling latency while scheduling the delayed work.

TCPM has three work streams:
1. tcpm_state_machine
2. vdm_state_machine
3. event_work

tcpm_state_machine and vdm_state_machine both schedule work in
future i.e. delayed. Hence each of them have a corresponding
hrtimer, tcpm_state_machine_timer & vdm_state_machine_timer.

When work is queued right away kthread_queue_work is used.
Else, the relevant timer is programmed and made to queue
the kthread_work upon timer expiry.

kthread_create_worker only creates one kthread worker thread,
hence single threadedness of workqueue is retained.

Signed-off-by: default avatarBadhri Jagan Sridharan <badhri@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Reviewed-by: default avatarHeikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200818192758.2562908-1-badhri@google.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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