Re: [PATCH 14/17] r8169: Use pcie_lnkctl_clear_and_set() for changing LNKCTL

[Lukas Wunner]

On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 11:00:02PM +0300, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Thu, 11 May 2023, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> > On 11.05.2023 15:14, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> > > Don't assume that only the driver would be accessing LNKCTL. ASPM
> > > policy changes can trigger write to LNKCTL outside of driver's control.
> > > 
> > > Use pcie_lnkctl_clear_and_set() which does proper locking to avoid
> > > losing concurrent updates to the register value.
> > > 
> > 
> > Wouldn't it be more appropriate to add proper locking to the
> > underlying pcie_capability_clear_and_set_word()?
> 
> As per discussion for the other patch, that's where this series is now 
> aiming to in v2.

That discussion wasn't cc'ed to Heiner.  For reference, this is the
message Ilpo is referring to:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/ZF1AjOKDVlbNFJPK@bhelgaas/