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Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 22:21:43 +0530
From: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
To: hongbo.zhang@...escale.com
Cc: vkoul@...radead.org, dan.j.williams@...el.com,
dmaengine@...r.kernel.org, scottwood@...escale.com,
leo.li@...escale.com, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 7/8] DMA: Freescale: use spin_lock_bh instead of
spin_lock_irqsave
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 04:17:50PM +0800, hongbo.zhang@...escale.com wrote:
> From: Hongbo Zhang <hongbo.zhang@...escale.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
--
~Vinod
> Signed-off-by: Hongbo Zhang <hongbo.zhang@...escale.com>
> Signed-off-by: Qiang Liu <qiang.liu@...escale.com>
> ---
> drivers/dma/fsldma.c | 25 ++++++++++---------------
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/fsldma.c b/drivers/dma/fsldma.c
> index 374ca97..6e1c9b3 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/fsldma.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/fsldma.c
> @@ -396,10 +396,9 @@ static dma_cookie_t fsl_dma_tx_submit(struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *tx)
> struct fsldma_chan *chan = to_fsl_chan(tx->chan);
> struct fsl_desc_sw *desc = tx_to_fsl_desc(tx);
> struct fsl_desc_sw *child;
> - unsigned long flags;
> dma_cookie_t cookie = -EINVAL;
>
> - spin_lock_irqsave(&chan->desc_lock, flags);
> + spin_lock_bh(&chan->desc_lock);
>
> /*
> * assign cookies to all of the software descriptors
> @@ -412,7 +411,7 @@ static dma_cookie_t fsl_dma_tx_submit(struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *tx)
> /* put this transaction onto the tail of the pending queue */
> append_ld_queue(chan, desc);
>
> - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&chan->desc_lock, flags);
> + spin_unlock_bh(&chan->desc_lock);
>
> return cookie;
> }
> @@ -726,15 +725,14 @@ static void fsldma_free_desc_list_reverse(struct fsldma_chan *chan,
> static void fsl_dma_free_chan_resources(struct dma_chan *dchan)
> {
> struct fsldma_chan *chan = to_fsl_chan(dchan);
> - unsigned long flags;
>
> chan_dbg(chan, "free all channel resources\n");
> - spin_lock_irqsave(&chan->desc_lock, flags);
> + spin_lock_bh(&chan->desc_lock);
> fsldma_cleanup_descriptors(chan);
> fsldma_free_desc_list(chan, &chan->ld_pending);
> fsldma_free_desc_list(chan, &chan->ld_running);
> fsldma_free_desc_list(chan, &chan->ld_completed);
> - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&chan->desc_lock, flags);
> + spin_unlock_bh(&chan->desc_lock);
>
> dma_pool_destroy(chan->desc_pool);
> chan->desc_pool = NULL;
> @@ -953,7 +951,6 @@ static int fsl_dma_device_control(struct dma_chan *dchan,
> {
> struct dma_slave_config *config;
> struct fsldma_chan *chan;
> - unsigned long flags;
> int size;
>
> if (!dchan)
> @@ -963,7 +960,7 @@ static int fsl_dma_device_control(struct dma_chan *dchan,
>
> switch (cmd) {
> case DMA_TERMINATE_ALL:
> - spin_lock_irqsave(&chan->desc_lock, flags);
> + spin_lock_bh(&chan->desc_lock);
>
> /* Halt the DMA engine */
> dma_halt(chan);
> @@ -974,7 +971,7 @@ static int fsl_dma_device_control(struct dma_chan *dchan,
> fsldma_free_desc_list(chan, &chan->ld_completed);
> chan->idle = true;
>
> - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&chan->desc_lock, flags);
> + spin_unlock_bh(&chan->desc_lock);
> return 0;
>
> case DMA_SLAVE_CONFIG:
> @@ -1016,11 +1013,10 @@ static int fsl_dma_device_control(struct dma_chan *dchan,
> static void fsl_dma_memcpy_issue_pending(struct dma_chan *dchan)
> {
> struct fsldma_chan *chan = to_fsl_chan(dchan);
> - unsigned long flags;
>
> - spin_lock_irqsave(&chan->desc_lock, flags);
> + spin_lock_bh(&chan->desc_lock);
> fsl_chan_xfer_ld_queue(chan);
> - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&chan->desc_lock, flags);
> + spin_unlock_bh(&chan->desc_lock);
> }
>
> /**
> @@ -1119,11 +1115,10 @@ static irqreturn_t fsldma_chan_irq(int irq, void *data)
> static void dma_do_tasklet(unsigned long data)
> {
> struct fsldma_chan *chan = (struct fsldma_chan *)data;
> - unsigned long flags;
>
> chan_dbg(chan, "tasklet entry\n");
>
> - spin_lock_irqsave(&chan->desc_lock, flags);
> + spin_lock_bh(&chan->desc_lock);
>
> /* the hardware is now idle and ready for more */
> chan->idle = true;
> @@ -1131,7 +1126,7 @@ static void dma_do_tasklet(unsigned long data)
> /* Run all cleanup for descriptors which have been completed */
> fsldma_cleanup_descriptors(chan);
>
> - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&chan->desc_lock, flags);
> + spin_unlock_bh(&chan->desc_lock);
>
> chan_dbg(chan, "tasklet exit\n");
> }
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>
>
>
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