From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: okaya@codeaurora.org (Sinan Kaya) Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2016 11:19:43 -0400 Subject: [PATCH V4 05/10] dmaengine: qcom_hidma: make pending_tre_count atomic In-Reply-To: <20161001061906.GG2467@localhost> References: <1475115167-5898-1-git-send-email-okaya@codeaurora.org> <1475115167-5898-6-git-send-email-okaya@codeaurora.org> <20161001061906.GG2467@localhost> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 10/1/2016 2:19 AM, Vinod Koul wrote: >> Making it atomic so that it can be updated from multiple contexts. > How is it multiple contexts? It's either existing context of MSI, not both! > I was trying to mean multiple processor contexts here. The driver allocates 11 MSI interrupts. Each MSI interrupt can be assigned to a different CPU. Then, we have a race condition for common variables as they share the same interrupt handler with a different cause bit. I will put the above description into the commit text. -- Sinan Kaya Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc. as an affiliate of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.