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From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/17] arch/arm/common: Add missing
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 18:43:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100526184358.GC6232@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201005261907.06198.marek.vasut@gmail.com>

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 07:07:06PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> Why are "readl"s protected by spinlock anyway ? Can't we just move the locking 
> past the code above ?

Good question - and there seems to be a deadlock waiting to happen -
sa1111_wake() re-takes the same lock.

I think we should kill all the spinlock in sa1111_resume().

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From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 7/17] arch/arm/common: Add missing spin_unlock_irqrestore
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 19:43:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100526184358.GC6232@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201005261907.06198.marek.vasut@gmail.com>

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 07:07:06PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> Why are "readl"s protected by spinlock anyway ? Can't we just move the locking 
> past the code above ?

Good question - and there seems to be a deadlock waiting to happen -
sa1111_wake() re-takes the same lock.

I think we should kill all the spinlock in sa1111_resume().

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/17] arch/arm/common: Add missing spin_unlock_irqrestore
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 19:43:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100526184358.GC6232@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201005261907.06198.marek.vasut@gmail.com>

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 07:07:06PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> Why are "readl"s protected by spinlock anyway ? Can't we just move the locking 
> past the code above ?

Good question - and there seems to be a deadlock waiting to happen -
sa1111_wake() re-takes the same lock.

I think we should kill all the spinlock in sa1111_resume().

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-26 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-26 15:56 [PATCH 7/17] arch/arm/common: Add missing spin_unlock_irqrestore Julia Lawall
2010-05-26 15:56 ` Julia Lawall
2010-05-26 15:56 ` Julia Lawall
2010-05-26 17:07 ` Marek Vasut
2010-05-26 17:07   ` Marek Vasut
2010-05-26 17:07   ` Marek Vasut
2010-05-26 18:43   ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2010-05-26 18:43     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-05-26 18:43     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-05-26 19:13     ` Marek Vasut
2010-05-26 19:13       ` Marek Vasut
2010-05-26 19:13       ` Marek Vasut

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