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From: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
To: Rongrong Zou <zourongrong@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
	Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@linux.intel.com>,
	Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: mutex_lock in designware-i2c
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 23:39:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160111213917.GB2957@tarshish> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56938E0A.5080303@gmail.com>

Hi Rongrong Zou,

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 07:12:10PM +0800, Rongrong Zou wrote:
> I found a mutex lock in dw_i2c_dev for each adapter,
> struct dw_i2c_dev {
>         struct device           *dev;
>         void __iomem            *base;
>         struct completion       cmd_complete;
>         struct mutex            lock;
>         struct clk              *clk;
> 
> but there is another lock: adapter->bus_lock, this lock is also
> for each adapter, why we need both of them ?

As far as I can see from the code the master_xfer callback is never called 
concurrently for the same adaptor. So indeed the internal lock looks 
redundant. I can't remember why I put it there.

baruch

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      reply	other threads:[~2016-01-11 21:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-11 11:12 mutex_lock in designware-i2c Rongrong Zou
2016-01-11 21:39 ` Baruch Siach [this message]

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