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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Mikko Perttunen' <mperttunen@nvidia.com>,
	"ldewangan@nvidia.com" <ldewangan@nvidia.com>,
	"digetx@gmail.com" <digetx@gmail.com>,
	"thierry.reding@gmail.com" <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
	"jonathanh@nvidia.com" <jonathanh@nvidia.com>,
	"wsa@kernel.org" <wsa@kernel.org>
Cc: "linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org" <linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org" <linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] i2c: tegra: Wait for config load atomically while in ISR
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 14:31:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a0b0f224c2864b80a5bac53646d67daf@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210111135547.3613092-1-mperttunen@nvidia.com>

From: Mikko Perttunen
> Sent: 11 January 2021 13:56
> 
> Upon a communication error, the interrupt handler can call
> tegra_i2c_disable_packet_mode. This causes a sleeping poll to happen
> unless the current transaction was marked atomic. Since
> tegra_i2c_disable_packet_mode is only called from the interrupt path,
> make it use atomic waiting always.

Spin-waiting in an ISR for anything that it makes sense to do
a sleep-wait for at other times is badly broken design.

	David

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-11 14:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-11 13:55 [PATCH] i2c: tegra: Wait for config load atomically while in ISR Mikko Perttunen
2021-01-11 14:31 ` David Laight [this message]
2021-01-11 14:38   ` Mikko Perttunen
2021-01-11 15:14 ` Dmitry Osipenko
2021-01-11 15:52   ` Mikko Perttunen

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