From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: stefan.wahren@i2se.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: qca_spi: Fix race condition in spi transfers
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2018 22:27:38 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180901.222738.2092199274760750174.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1535719981-20812-1-git-send-email-stefan.wahren@i2se.com>
From: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 14:53:01 +0200
> The performance optimization with the prepared spi messages
> also introduced a race condition between the kernel thread
> and the register dump. This could make spi_sync hang forever.
>
> So revert the optimization completely.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>
Please resubmit this patch with a better commit message, explaining in
more detail what the race is exactly.
Thank you.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-02 5:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-31 12:53 [PATCH] net: qca_spi: Fix race condition in spi transfers Stefan Wahren
2018-09-02 5:27 ` David Miller [this message]
2018-09-04 15:38 ` kbuild test robot
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