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From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/6] dmaengine/dw_dmac: Replace spin_lock_bh with irqsave variants
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:30:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110426203044.GA17290@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e52c8e679fbf3007cf7e5e4bcfc86ea208a09d7c.1303123511.git.viresh.kumar@st.com>

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 04:19:59PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
>  static struct dw_desc *dwc_desc_get(struct dw_dma_chan *dwc)
>  {
> +	struct dw_dma *dw = to_dw_dma(dwc->chan.device);
>  	struct dw_desc *desc, *_desc;
>  	struct dw_desc *ret = NULL;
>  	unsigned int i = 0;
>  
> -	spin_lock_bh(&dwc->lock);
> +	spin_lock_irqsave(&dwc->lock, dw->flags);

It's a very bad idea to store the IRQ flags like this - it means that
another thread operating on this corrupts this threads interrupt flag
settings.

It should be a local variable.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-26 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-18 10:49 [PATCH 1/6] dmaengine/dw_dmac: Replace spin_lock_bh with irqsave variants Viresh Kumar
2011-04-18 10:50 ` [PATCH 2/6] dmaengine/dw_dmac: Enable resubmission from callback routine Viresh Kumar
2011-04-19  6:12   ` Koul, Vinod
2011-04-19  6:23     ` viresh kumar
2011-04-19  6:33       ` Koul, Vinod
2011-04-19  6:46         ` viresh kumar
2011-04-26 20:31     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-04-18 10:50 ` [PATCH 3/6] dmaengine/dw_dmac: call dwc_descriptor_complete from dwc_control with lock held Viresh Kumar
2011-04-18 10:50 ` [PATCH 4/6] dmaengine/dw_dmac: don't call callback routine in case dmaengine_terminate_all() is called Viresh Kumar
2011-04-18 10:50 ` [PATCH 5/6] dmaengine/dw_dmac: set residue as total len in dwc_tx_status if status is !DMA_SUCCESS Viresh Kumar
2011-04-18 10:50 ` [PATCH 6/6] dmaengine/dw_dmac: Divide one sg to many desc, if sg len is greater than DWC_MAX_COUNT Viresh Kumar
2011-04-19  6:25 ` [PATCH 1/6] dmaengine/dw_dmac: Replace spin_lock_bh with irqsave variants viresh kumar
2011-04-26 20:33   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-04-27  3:47     ` viresh kumar
2011-04-27  5:59     ` viresh kumar
2011-04-27  7:28       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-04-26 20:30 ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]

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