Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932242Ab0BYEMT (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:12:19 -0500 Received: from smtp-out003.kontent.com ([81.88.40.217]:46675 "EHLO smtp-out003.kontent.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932077Ab0BYEMQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:12:16 -0500 From: Oliver Neukum To: "Rick L. Vinyard, Jr." Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] picolcd: driver for PicoLCD HID device Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:11:52 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.33-rc8-0.1-default; KDE/4.3.1; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Bruno =?iso-8859-1?q?Pr=C3=A9mont?= , "Jiri Kosina" , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Nicu Pavel" References: <20100221002001.0a7e05a7@neptune.home> <201002241927.53532.oliver@neukum.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002250511.52284.oliver@neukum.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 851 Lines: 22 Am Mittwoch, 24. Februar 2010 22:44:53 schrieb Rick L. Vinyard, Jr.: > The issue, as I understand it is that non-interrupt code may obtain the > lock and then the interrupt code is executed... hence the deadlock and the > need to use spin_lock_irqsave() and spin_unlock_irqrestore(). Yes. > If that is correct, is there any problem with the following approach? Why not always a workqueue or alternatively spin_lock_irq() when you are not in interrupt? This approach seems needlessly complicated. Secondly, when you hold a spinlock, you must use GFP_ATOMIC. GFP_NOIO is insufficient. Regards Oliver -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/