Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] pinctrl: rockchip: remove unnecessary locking

From: Julia Cartwright
Date: Thu Mar 23 2017 - 12:11:02 EST


Hello John-

One quick question below. Apologies if this has been covered, but just
want to be sure.

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:59:28AM +0000, John Keeping wrote:
> regmap_update_bits does its own locking and everything else accessed
> here is a local variable so there is no need to lock around it.
>
> Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@xxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v3: unchanged
> v2.1:
> - Remove RK2928 locking in rockchip_set_pull()
> v2:
> - Also remove locking in rockchip_set_schmitt()
> ---
> drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-rockchip.c | 33 ++-------------------------------
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-rockchip.c b/drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-rockchip.c
> index bd4b63f66220..6568c867bdcd 100644
> --- a/drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-rockchip.c
> +++ b/drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-rockchip.c
[..]
> @@ -1185,17 +1177,14 @@ static int rockchip_set_drive_perpin(struct rockchip_pin_bank *bank,
> rmask = BIT(15) | BIT(31);
> data |= BIT(31);
> ret = regmap_update_bits(regmap, reg, rmask, data);
> - if (ret) {
> - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bank->slock, flags);
> + if (ret)
> return ret;
> - }
>
> rmask = 0x3 | (0x3 << 16);
> temp |= (0x3 << 16);
> reg += 0x4;
> ret = regmap_update_bits(regmap, reg, rmask, temp);

Killing the lock here means the writes to to this pair of registers (reg
and reg + 4) can be observed non-atomically. Have you convinced
yourself that this isn't a problem?

Julia

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