Staging: IIO: Ring buffer: Initial pass at rarely locked ring buffer

Please note this ring buffer implementation is very much a
work in progress (and hence RFC).  In it's current form
it is stable and reasonably efficient.  There are a couple
of unlikely cases that will lead to more data being lost
that is strictly necessary. The target was for the case
of requiring regular sampling even during user space reads.

All comments welcome.

The intention is to make this only one of several
implementations with run time selection.  For now there
is only one, so it is hard coded into the drivers using it.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/iio/Kconfig
index 6da4fb96cd28..869433f541cf 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/iio/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/staging/iio/Kconfig
@@ -17,6 +17,18 @@ config IIO_RING_BUFFER
 	  Provide core support for various ring buffer based data
 	  acquisition methods.
 
+if IIO_RING_BUFFER
+
+config IIO_SW_RING
+	tristate "Industrial I/O lock free software ring"
+	help
+	example software ring buffer implementation.  The design aim
+	of this particular realization was to minize write locking
+	with the intention that some devices would be able to write
+	in interrupt context.
+
+endif # IIO_RINGBUFFER
+
 config IIO_TRIGGER
 	boolean "Enable triggered sampling support"
 	help