linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] ASoC: rt5640: Fix sleep in atomic context

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Date:   Thu, 29 Jun 2023 11:27:14 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] ASoC: rt5640: Fix sleep in atomic context

On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 10:21:06AM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> From: Mark Brown

> > What makes you think this is anything to do with audio glitches?  The
> > bug is literally what is described, it is not valid to sleep in atomic
> > contexts and if we ever actually try things are likely to go badly.

> What I mean is that deferring the ISR to process context
> is likely to generate audio glitches on a busy system.

This is an I2C connected CODEC.  We're not doing anything with it in
atomic context, and nothing it does is going to be *that* latency
sensitive.

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