From: "Richard Röjfors" <richard.rojfors@pelagicore.com>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>,
"Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
"Dan J <dan.j.williams"@intel.com
Subject: [PATCH] dma: timb-dma: Update comment and fix compiler warning
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:23:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1269588238.26867.8.camel@debian> (raw)
An incremental patch which clarifies what the spinlock is used for
and fixes a compiler warning.
Signed-off-by: Richard Röjfors <richard.rojfors@pelagicore.com>
---
diff --git a/drivers/dma/timb_dma.c b/drivers/dma/timb_dma.c
index 4dd7102..145f1c2 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/timb_dma.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/timb_dma.c
@@ -79,7 +79,10 @@ struct timb_dma_desc {
struct timb_dma_chan {
struct dma_chan chan;
void __iomem *membase;
- spinlock_t lock; /* Used for mutual exclusion */
+ spinlock_t lock; /* Used to protect data structures,
+ especially the lists and descriptors,
+ from races between the tasklet and calls
+ from above */
dma_cookie_t last_completed_cookie;
bool ongoing;
struct list_head active_list;
@@ -197,7 +200,7 @@ static int td_fill_desc(struct timb_dma_chan *td_chan, u8 *dma_desc,
}
dev_dbg(chan2dev(&td_chan->chan), "desc: %p, addr: %p\n",
- dma_desc, (void *)(int)sg_dma_address(sg));
+ dma_desc, (void *)sg_dma_address(sg));
dma_desc[7] = (sg_dma_address(sg) >> 24) & 0xff;
dma_desc[6] = (sg_dma_address(sg) >> 16) & 0xff;
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