Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] phy: Add driver for Exynos MIPI CSIS/DSIM DPHYs

[Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>]

Hi,

On Sunday 30 June 2013 01:04 AM, Sylwester Nawrocki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 06/29/2013 10:57 AM, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
>> On Friday 28 June 2013 03:41 PM, Sylwester Nawrocki wrote:
>>> On 06/28/2013 10:17 AM, Hui Wang wrote:
>>>> On 06/26/2013 11:02 PM, Sylwester Nawrocki wrote:
>>>>> Add a PHY provider driver for the Samsung S5P/Exynos SoC MIPI CSI-2
>>>>> receiver and MIPI DSI transmitter DPHYs.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> Changes since v2:
>>>>> - adapted to the generic PHY API v9: use phy_set/get_drvdata(),
>>>>> - fixed of_xlate callback to return ERR_PTR() instead of NULL,
>>>>> - namespace cleanup, put "GPL v2" as MODULE_LICENSE, removed pr_debug,
>>>>> - removed phy id check in __set_phy_state().
>>>>> ---
>>>> [...]
>>>>> +
>>>>> + if (IS_EXYNOS_MIPI_DSIM_PHY_ID(id))
>>>>> + reset = EXYNOS_MIPI_PHY_MRESETN;
>>>>> + else
>>>>> + reset = EXYNOS_MIPI_PHY_SRESETN;
>>>>> +
>>>>> + spin_lock_irqsave(&state->slock, flags);
>>>>
>>>> Sorry for one stupid question here, why do you use spin_lock_irqsave()
>>>> rather than spin_lock(),
>>>> I don't see the irq handler will use this spinlock anywhere in this c
>>>> file.
>>>
>>> Yes, there is no chance the PHY users could call the phy ops from within
>>> an interrupt context. Especially now when there is a per phy object
>>> mutex used in the PHY operation helpers. So I'll replace it with plain
>>> spin_lock/unlock. Thank you for the review.
>>
>> Now that PHY ops is already protected, do you really need a spin_lock here?
>
> It is still needed, to synchronize access to the control register from
> two separate PHY objects. The mutex is per PHY object, while the spinlock
> is per PHY provider.

Ok. Makes sense.

Thanks
Kishon