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From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date:   Fri, 17 Apr 2020 15:38:49 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] soc: sprd: Add Spreadtrum special bits updating support
To:     Baolin Wang <baolin.wang7@gmail.com>
Cc:     Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
        Orson Zhai <orsonzhai@gmail.com>,
        Lyra Zhang <zhang.lyra@gmail.com>,
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On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 4:14 AM Baolin Wang <baolin.wang7@gmail.com> wrote:
> + *
> + * Note: there is a potential risk when users want to set and clear bits
> + * at the same time, since the set/clear method will always do bits setting
> + * before bits clearing, which may cause some unexpected results if the
> + * operation sequence is strict. Thus we recommend that do not set and
> + * clear bits at the same time if you are not sure the results.

Would it make sense to have a

WARN_ONCE(set && clk, "%s: non-atomic update", __func__);

in the code to check for this?

> +static int sprd_syscon_init(void)
> +{
> +       syscon_register_phys_regmap_bus(&sprd_syscon_regmap);
> +
> +       return 0;
> +}
> +core_initcall_sync(sprd_syscon_init);

This no longer breaks at runtime based on the changes in the other
patch, but I still don't like how you have to manually load this module
on spreadtrum platforms.

What I meant to suggest in my previous reply was to add the regmap_bus
instance into drivers/mfd/syscon.c itself.

      Arnd