From: bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at (Bernd Petrovitsch)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Best practice to lock a read/write to a HW register
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 13:14:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1384431269.1520.16.camel@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5284A6AE.90901@gmail.com>
Hi!
On Don, 2013-11-14 at 11:32 +0100, Luca Ellero wrote:
[...]
> can someone please show me which is the best practice to lock a
> read/write to a hardware register.
> In other words if, in a driver, I want to modify a bit in a HW register,
> I have to read the register, set/reset the relevant bit and write back
> the reg.
> But what can I do to be sure that no other code modifies the register
> between my read and write?
> Is spin_lock() suitable for this purpose?
If the read-modify-write (read: the critical section) run-time is short,
a spin-lock is the usual means. If it is needed from IRQ-context - see
also other mails - you must use the *_irq() variant.
Bernd
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-14 12:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-14 10:32 Best practice to lock a read/write to a HW register Luca Ellero
2013-11-14 11:20 ` Mandeep Sandhu
2013-11-14 11:51 ` binoy.jayan at wipro.com
2013-11-14 12:14 ` Bernd Petrovitsch [this message]
2013-11-15 1:30 ` manty kuma
2013-11-15 8:53 ` Luca Ellero
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