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From: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar>
To: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>,
	linux-media@vger.kernel.org, mchehab@osg.samsung.com,
	hans.verkuil@cisco.com
Subject: Re: em38xx locking question
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 10:29:53 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54FEF1D1.3000909@vanguardiasur.com.ar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54FEF0E9.9070804@xs4all.nl>



On 03/10/2015 10:26 AM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> On 03/10/2015 02:18 PM, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
>> Mauro,
>>
>> Function drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c:get_next_buf
>> (copy pasted below for reference) does not take the list spinlock,
>> yet it modifies the list. Is that correct?
> 
> That looks wrong to me. You really need spinlocks here.
> 

OK, second question then. Is there any way to guarantee the URBs irq handler
is *not* running, when vb2_ops are called (e.g. stop_streaming)?

Otherwise, given stop_streaming will return the current buffer to vb2
(dev->usb_ctl.vid_buf), I believe that will race against the irq handler,
which is processing it.

It seems that's currently racy as well.

-- 
Ezequiel Garcia, VanguardiaSur
www.vanguardiasur.com.ar

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-10 13:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-10 13:18 em38xx locking question Ezequiel Garcia
2015-03-10 13:26 ` Hans Verkuil
2015-03-10 13:29   ` Ezequiel Garcia [this message]
2015-03-10 13:46     ` Hans Verkuil
2015-03-10 14:06       ` Ezequiel Garcia
2015-03-10 14:16         ` Hans Verkuil

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