linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] clk: mxl: Remove redundant spinlocks

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Message-Id: <20221017222853.68A98C433C1@smtp.kernel.org>
Date:   Mon, 17 Oct 2022 15:28:51 -0700
From:   Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
To:     Rahul Tanwar <rtanwar@...linear.com>, linux-clk@...r.kernel.org,
        mturquette@...libre.com, yzhu@...linear.com
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-lgm-soc@...linear.com,
        Rahul Tanwar <rtanwar@...linear.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] clk: mxl: Remove redundant spinlocks

Quoting Rahul Tanwar (2022-10-12 23:48:31)
> Patch 1/4 of this patch series switches from direct readl/writel
> based register access to regmap based register access. Instead
> of using direct readl/writel, regmap API's are used to read, write
> & read-modify-write clk registers. Regmap API's already use their
> own spinlocks to serialize the register accesses across multiple
> cores in which case additional driver spinlocks becomes redundant.
> 
> Hence, remove redundant spinlocks from driver in this patch 2/4.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Yi xin Zhu <yzhu@...linear.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rahul Tanwar <rtanwar@...linear.com>
> ---

Applied to clk-next