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From: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
To: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@canonical.com>
Cc: ajayg@nvidia.com,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
	"open list:I2C CONTROLLER DRIVER FOR NVIDIA GPU"
	<linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org>,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: nvidia-gpu: Handle timeout correctly in gpu_i2c_check_status()
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 12:09:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200324110930.GH1134@ninjato> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200311165806.12365-1-kai.heng.feng@canonical.com>

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>  	} while (time_is_after_jiffies(target));
>  
> -	if (time_is_before_jiffies(target)) {
> +	if (time_is_before_eq_jiffies(target)) {

While unlikely, there is a tiny race between the time_is_* calls,
jiffies could update inbetween them.

So, for the sake of good programming practice, I'd recommend to set a
flag in the do_while-loop and the have the logic above solely based on
the flag.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-03-24 11:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-11 16:58 [PATCH] i2c: nvidia-gpu: Handle timeout correctly in gpu_i2c_check_status() Kai-Heng Feng
2020-03-23  5:38 ` Kai-Heng Feng
2020-03-23 16:47   ` Ajay Gupta
2020-03-23 17:20     ` Kai-Heng Feng
2020-03-24  3:51       ` Ajay Gupta
2020-03-24 11:09 ` Wolfram Sang [this message]
2020-03-24 11:12   ` Kai-Heng Feng

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