Re: [PATCH 1/2] clk: abstract locking out into helper functions

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Mar 28 2013 - 05:31:28 EST


On Wed, 27 Mar 2013, Mike Turquette wrote:

> Create locking helpers for the global mutex and global spinlock. The
> definitions of these helpers will be expanded upon in the next patch
> which introduces reentrancy into the locking scheme.

This looks way better. Nitpick below.

> +static void clk_enable_lock(unsigned long *flags)
> +{
> + spin_lock_irqsave(&enable_lock, *flags);
> +}

> +static void clk_enable_unlock(unsigned long *flags)

Please just hand in the flags, no need for indirection.

> +{
> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&enable_lock, *flags);
> +}
> +

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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