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From: Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar@gmail.com>
To: haidong yao <yaohaidong369@gmail.com>
Cc: natechancellor@gmail.com,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com,
	Orson Zhai <orsonzhai@gmail.com>,
	Chunyan Zhang <zhang.lyra@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add chan->cl check in mbox_chan_received_data()
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2021 00:28:29 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABb+yY3P_iFnKamY=7z5rnNW+BQW4-vAbeS=S33BpqCKR1Rhuw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+kUaCeebDNXi12-nNpw4i_auZbM+JQUC5uNhEzXxqa7=W4LnQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 5:53 AM haidong yao <yaohaidong369@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Jassi Brar
>
> Thank you very much for your reply.
>
> Look at the function sprd_mbox_outbox_isr .
>
> Chan is !NULL.
>
> chan->cl is NULL when the client driver not loaded, the controller
> driver don't know the client driver loaded successfully, so, I do not
> use mbox_free_channel.
>
> Here,How do you know chan->cl is ok?
>
The channel is supposed to get/send data _only_ if it is being used by a client.
Which you can mark in .startup() and .shutdown().

Checking for chan->cl will make your symptoms disappear but that is
not the right fix for the issue.
The right fix is to EITHER not cause Rx/Tx interrupt on a channel not
being used, OR not send it to upper layers.

thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-01  6:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-15  8:48 [PATCH] add chan->cl check in mbox_chan_received_data() Haidong Yao
2020-12-15 21:20 ` Jassi Brar
2020-12-16  0:52 ` Orson Zhai
2021-01-07 11:53 ` haidong yao
2021-02-01  6:28   ` Jassi Brar [this message]
2021-02-04  7:22     ` Yao Haidong

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