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From: "Richard Röjfors" <richard.rojfors@pelagicore.com>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>,
	"Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	"Dan J <dan.j.williams"@intel.com
Subject: [PATCH] dma: timb-dma: Update comment and fix compiler warning
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:23:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1269588238.26867.8.camel@debian> (raw)

An incremental patch which clarifies what the spinlock is used for
and fixes a compiler warning.

Signed-off-by: Richard Röjfors <richard.rojfors@pelagicore.com>
---
diff --git a/drivers/dma/timb_dma.c b/drivers/dma/timb_dma.c
index 4dd7102..145f1c2 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/timb_dma.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/timb_dma.c
@@ -79,7 +79,10 @@ struct timb_dma_desc {
 struct timb_dma_chan {
 	struct dma_chan		chan;
 	void __iomem		*membase;
-	spinlock_t		lock; /* Used for mutual exclusion */
+	spinlock_t		lock; /* Used to protect data structures,
+					especially the lists and descriptors,
+					from races between the tasklet and calls
+					from above */
 	dma_cookie_t		last_completed_cookie;
 	bool			ongoing;
 	struct list_head	active_list;
@@ -197,7 +200,7 @@ static int td_fill_desc(struct timb_dma_chan *td_chan, u8 *dma_desc,
 	}
 
 	dev_dbg(chan2dev(&td_chan->chan), "desc: %p, addr: %p\n",
-		dma_desc, (void *)(int)sg_dma_address(sg));
+		dma_desc, (void *)sg_dma_address(sg));
 
 	dma_desc[7] = (sg_dma_address(sg) >> 24) & 0xff;
 	dma_desc[6] = (sg_dma_address(sg) >> 16) & 0xff;




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