linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 20/23] staging: qlge: Fix CHECK: usleep

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Date:   Thu, 12 Dec 2019 05:00:57 -0600
From:   Scott Schafer <schaferjscott@...il.com>
To:     Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, Manish Chopra <manishc@...vell.com>,
        GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@...vell.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 20/23] staging: qlge: Fix CHECK: usleep_range is
 preferred over udelay

On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 01:45:57PM +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On 11.12.2019 21:12, Scott Schafer wrote:
> 
> > chage udelay() to usleep_range()
> 
>    Change?
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Scott Schafer <schaferjscott@...il.com>
> > ---
> >   drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_main.c | 2 +-
> >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_main.c b/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_main.c
> > index e18aa335c899..9427386e4a1e 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_main.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_main.c
> > @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ int ql_sem_spinlock(struct ql_adapter *qdev, u32 sem_mask)
> >   	do {
> >   		if (!ql_sem_trylock(qdev, sem_mask))
> >   			return 0;
> > -		udelay(100);
> > +		usleep_range(100, 200);
> 
>    I hope you're not in atomic context...
> 
> >   	} while (--wait_count);
> >   	return -ETIMEDOUT;
> >   }
> 
> MBR, Sergei

Im not quite what you mean by "I hope you're not in atomic context",
could you please explain why you said this?