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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@nokia.com>
Cc: "tony@atomide.com" <tony@atomide.com>,
	"alsa-devel@alsa-project.org" <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>,
	"linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Valentin Eduardo (Nokia-D/Helsinki)"
	<eduardo.valentin@nokia.com>,
	"Nurkkala Eero.An (EXT-Offcode/Oulu)"
	<ext-Eero.Nurkkala@nokia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] OMAP: McBSP: Do not use extensive spin locks for dma_op_mode
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:00:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091027120009.GA19323@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200910271317.52638.peter.ujfalusi@nokia.com>

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 01:17:52PM +0200, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 October 2009 13:07:23 Nurkkala Eero.An (EXT-Offcode/Oulu) wrote:

> > You may wish to double read the message above, as it's quite
> > confusing =)

> Yes it is ;)
> I have left one spinlock around the dma_op_mode, when it also protects the 
> mcbsp->active, so that is why that last sentence.

I have to confess that I'm still not entirely clear what the lock is
supposed to be doing or why it's OK to drop it.  I gather that it's just
that dmap_on_mode() doesn't need a lock at all?

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-27 12:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-27 11:00 [PATCH] OMAP: McBSP: Do not use extensive spin locks for dma_op_mode Peter Ujfalusi
2009-10-27 11:07 ` Eero Nurkkala
2009-10-27 11:17   ` Peter Ujfalusi
2009-10-27 12:00     ` Mark Brown [this message]
2009-10-27 12:04       ` Eero Nurkkala
2009-10-27 12:04       ` [alsa-devel] " Peter Ujfalusi
2009-10-27 14:00   ` Jarkko Nikula
2009-10-28  5:52     ` Peter Ujfalusi
2009-10-28  6:53       ` Eero Nurkkala
2009-10-29  6:35         ` Peter Ujfalusi
2009-10-29  7:15           ` [alsa-devel] " Jarkko Nikula
2009-11-09  7:49             ` Peter Ujfalusi
2009-11-09 13:18               ` Mark Brown
2009-10-29  7:13         ` [alsa-devel] " Jarkko Nikula
2009-11-12 22:17 ` [APPLIED] " Tony Lindgren

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