From: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
To: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>, linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>,
Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com>,
Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/10] i2c: rcar: remove spinlock
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 18:04:27 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5644AA7B.6090802@cogentembedded.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1447338715-9955-5-git-send-email-wsa@the-dreams.de>
Hello.
On 11/12/2015 5:31 PM, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> From: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
>
> After making sure to reinit the HW and clear interrupts in the timeout
> case, we know that interrupts are always disabled in the sections
> protected by the spinlock.
What about SMP? Spinlocks are mostly necessary for the SMP support, their
tole isn't limited to disabling interrupts...
> Thus, we can simply remove it which is a
> preparation for further refactoring. While here, rename the timeout
> variable to time_left which is way more readable.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
[...]
MBR, Sergei
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-12 15:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-12 14:31 [PATCH v2 00/10] i2c: rcar: tackle race conditions in the driver Wolfram Sang
2015-11-12 14:31 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] i2c: rcar: make sure clocks are on when doing clock calculation Wolfram Sang
2015-11-12 19:16 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-11-12 14:31 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] i2c: rcar: rework hw init Wolfram Sang
2015-11-12 14:31 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] i2c: rcar: remove unused IOERROR state Wolfram Sang
2015-11-12 14:31 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] i2c: rcar: remove spinlock Wolfram Sang
2015-11-12 15:04 ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
2015-11-12 15:52 ` Wolfram Sang
2015-11-12 14:31 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] i2c: rcar: refactor setup of a msg Wolfram Sang
2015-11-16 21:02 ` Laurent Pinchart
2015-11-17 7:00 ` Wolfram Sang
2015-11-17 7:38 ` Laurent Pinchart
2015-11-18 7:31 ` Wolfram Sang
2015-11-18 2:18 ` Magnus Damm
2015-11-18 6:45 ` Laurent Pinchart
2015-11-18 8:07 ` Wolfram Sang
2015-11-18 8:17 ` Magnus Damm
2015-11-12 14:31 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] i2c: rcar: init new messages in irq Wolfram Sang
2015-11-13 2:12 ` [PATCH v2 00/10] i2c: rcar: tackle race conditions in the driver Kuninori Morimoto
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