From: Hongbo Zhang <hongbo.zhang@freescale.com>
To: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
Cc: leo.li@freescale.com, vkoul@infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, scottwood@freescale.com,
dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, dan.j.williams@intel.com,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 7/8] DMA: Freescale: use spin_lock_bh instead of spin_lock_irqsave
Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 16:40:18 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5365FCF2.9090008@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140502165143.GI32284@intel.com>
On 05/03/2014 12:51 AM, Vinod Koul wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 04:17:50PM +0800, hongbo.zhang@freescale.com wrote:
>> From: Hongbo Zhang <hongbo.zhang@freescale.com>
>>
>> The usage of spin_lock_irqsave() is a stronger locking mechanism than is
>> required throughout the driver. The minimum locking required should be used
>> instead. Interrupts will be turned off and context will be saved, it is
>> unnecessary to use irqsave.
>>
>> This patch changes all instances of spin_lock_irqsave() to spin_lock_bh(). All
>> manipulation of protected fields is done using tasklet context or weaker, which
>> makes spin_lock_bh() the correct choice.
>>
> This doesnt apply, perhpas due to depends on 6/8
>
So let's wait for the review result of 6/8.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-04 8:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-18 8:17 [PATCH v4 0/8] DMA: Freescale: driver cleanups and enhancements hongbo.zhang
2014-04-18 8:17 ` [PATCH v4 1/8] DMA: Freescale: remove the unnecessary FSL_DMA_LD_DEBUG hongbo.zhang
2014-05-02 16:48 ` Vinod Koul
2014-04-18 8:17 ` [PATCH v4 2/8] DMA: Freescale: unify register access methods hongbo.zhang
2014-05-02 16:48 ` Vinod Koul
2014-04-18 8:17 ` [PATCH v4 3/8] DMA: Freescale: remove attribute DMA_INTERRUPT of dmaengine hongbo.zhang
2014-05-02 16:49 ` Vinod Koul
2014-04-18 8:17 ` [PATCH v4 4/8] DMA: Freescale: add fsl_dma_free_descriptor() to reduce code duplication hongbo.zhang
2014-05-02 16:49 ` Vinod Koul
2014-04-18 8:17 ` [PATCH v4 5/8] DMA: Freescale: move functions to avoid forward declarations hongbo.zhang
2014-05-02 16:50 ` Vinod Koul
2014-04-18 8:17 ` [PATCH v4 6/8] DMA: Freescale: change descriptor release process for supporting async_tx hongbo.zhang
2014-05-02 16:50 ` Vinod Koul
2014-05-08 10:03 ` Hongbo Zhang
2014-04-18 8:17 ` [PATCH v4 7/8] DMA: Freescale: use spin_lock_bh instead of spin_lock_irqsave hongbo.zhang
2014-05-02 16:51 ` Vinod Koul
2014-05-04 8:40 ` Hongbo Zhang [this message]
2014-04-18 8:17 ` [PATCH v4 8/8] DMA: Freescale: add suspend resume functions for DMA driver hongbo.zhang
2014-05-02 16:46 ` Vinod Koul
2014-05-04 10:22 ` Hongbo Zhang
2014-05-07 8:31 ` Shevchenko, Andriy
2014-05-08 9:52 ` Hongbo Zhang
2014-05-21 3:45 ` Vinod Koul
2014-05-21 6:42 ` Hongbo Zhang
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