linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3 2/7] dmaengine/dw_dmac: Replace spin

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Date:	Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:47:19 +0530
From:	viresh kumar <viresh.kumar@...com>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Shiraz HASHIM <shiraz.hashim@...com>,
	"vinod.koul@...el.com" <vinod.koul@...el.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Armando VISCONTI <armando.visconti@...com>,
	"viresh.linux@...il.com" <viresh.linux@...il.com>,
	"dan.j.williams@...el.com" <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 2/7] dmaengine/dw_dmac: Replace spin_lock* with	irqsave
 variants

On 04/29/2011 02:45 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> BTW, how this gets handled in other drivers is basically as follows in
> the tasklet:
> 
> tasklet()
> {
> 	LIST_HEAD(completed);
> 
> 	spin_lock_irqsave(lock, flags);
> 	for each txd(txd) {
> 		if (completed(txd))
> 			list_move_tail(&txd->node, &completed);
> 	}
> 	try to start new txd();
> 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(lock, flags);
> 
> 	for each list entry safe(txd, &completed) {
> 		void (*callback)(void *) = txd->callback;
> 		void *param = txd->callback_param;
> 
> 		free_txd(txd);
> 
> 		if (callback)
> 			callback(param);
> 	}
> }
> 
> I'm not sure how easy it is to move dw_dmac to that kind of structure,

I will check that.

-- 
viresh
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