netdev - Re: [net-next.git 4/9] stmmac: add the support for PTP hw clock driver

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Date:	Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:55:38 +0100
From:	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
To:	Rayagond K <rayagond@...avyalabs.com>
Cc:	Giuseppe CAVALLARO <peppe.cavallaro@...com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, bh74.an@...sung.com
Subject: Re: [net-next.git 4/9] stmmac: add the support for PTP hw clock
 driver

On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 08:37:24PM +0530, Rayagond K wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>wrote:

> > Don't you need locking here to protect against concurrent callers of
> > config_addend?
> >
> 
> Yes we need locking here too, will add it.
> 
> But I can see no locking in this function in other two driver'e
> ppt_ixp46x.c and gianfar_ptp.c. So I just followed these two driver.

Those two drivers don't need locking, because setting the addend
register is a single 32 bit write operation in both cases.

In your driver, setting the addend involves a sequence of writes and
reads, in addition to polling a status bit, so you do need to
serialize access to those registers.

Thanks,
Richard
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