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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 13/13] tty: pruss SUART driver
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:17:38 +0530
> "Subhasish Ghosh" <subhasish@mistralsolutions.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Regarding the semaphore to mutex migration.
> > We are using down_trylock in interrupt context,
> > mutex_trylock cannot be used in interrupt context, so we cannot use mutex in
> > our driver.
>
> Then you probably need to rework your locking. Best bet might be to fix
> all the other stuff and report the driver, and people can think about the
> locking problem.

That semaphore is utterly useless to begin with. There are more
serious locking problems than this one. Non serialized calls to
suart_intr_clrmask/suart_intr_setmask are the most obvious ones.

Aside of that the code is complete unreadable.

Thanks,

tglx


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