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From: Bhadram Varka <vbhadram@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: stmmac: Use mutex instead of spinlock
Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 20:06:47 +0530
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Cc: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>,
        Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@st.com>,
        Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
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        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
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Hi,

On 5/24/2018 7:39 PM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> From: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
> 
> Some drivers, such as DWC EQOS on Tegra, need to perform operations that
> can sleep under this lock (clk_set_rate() in tegra_eqos_fix_speed()) for
> proper operation. Since there is no need for this lock to be a spinlock,
> convert it to a mutex instead.
> 
> Fixes: e6ea2d16fc61 ("net: stmmac: dwc-qos: Add Tegra186 support")
> Reported-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
> ---

Tested on P3310 Tegra186 platform.

Tested-by: Bhadram Varka <vbhadram@nvidia.com>

-- 
Bhadram