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Subject[PATCH] dma: timb-dma: Update comment and fix compiler warning
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An incremental patch which clarifies what the spinlock is used for
and fixes a compiler warning.

Signed-off-by: Richard Röjfors <richard.rojfors@pelagicore.com>
---
diff --git a/drivers/dma/timb_dma.c b/drivers/dma/timb_dma.c
index 4dd7102..145f1c2 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/timb_dma.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/timb_dma.c
@@ -79,7 +79,10 @@ struct timb_dma_desc {
struct timb_dma_chan {
struct dma_chan chan;
void __iomem *membase;
- spinlock_t lock; /* Used for mutual exclusion */
+ spinlock_t lock; /* Used to protect data structures,
+ especially the lists and descriptors,
+ from races between the tasklet and calls
+ from above */
dma_cookie_t last_completed_cookie;
bool ongoing;
struct list_head active_list;
@@ -197,7 +200,7 @@ static int td_fill_desc(struct timb_dma_chan *td_chan, u8 *dma_desc,
}

dev_dbg(chan2dev(&td_chan->chan), "desc: %p, addr: %p\n",
- dma_desc, (void *)(int)sg_dma_address(sg));
+ dma_desc, (void *)sg_dma_address(sg));

dma_desc[7] = (sg_dma_address(sg) >> 24) & 0xff;
dma_desc[6] = (sg_dma_address(sg) >> 16) & 0xff;


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