Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754965Ab0FNGjj (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jun 2010 02:39:39 -0400 Received: from mail.karo-electronics.de ([81.173.242.67]:57229 "EHLO mail.karo-electronics.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751253Ab0FNGji (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jun 2010 02:39:38 -0400 Message-ID: <19477.52889.982995.407051@ipc1.ka-ro> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 08:39:21 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-15?Q?Lothar_Wa=DFmann?= To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Uwe =?iso-8859-15?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= , Jeremy Kerr , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ben Dooks Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH 1/2] Add a common struct clk In-Reply-To: <1276319643.1962.181.camel@pasglop> References: <1275636608.606606.450179637764.0.gpush@pororo> <201006111557.12249.jeremy.kerr@canonical.com> <19473.61547.684572.647641@ipc1.ka-ro> <201006111718.47426.jeremy.kerr@canonical.com> <19474.172.742782.972629@ipc1.ka-ro> <20100611095839.GC10894@pengutronix.de> <19474.2817.333749.485028@ipc1.ka-ro> <1276319643.1962.181.camel@pasglop> X-Mailer: VM 8.0.9 under Emacs 22.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1609 Lines: 42 Hi, Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: > On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 12:08 +0200, Lothar Wa?mann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > > > Using a mutex in clk_enable()/clk_disable() is a bad idea, since that > > > > > > makes it impossible to call those functions in interrupt context. > > > IMHO if a device generates an irq its clock should already be on. This > > > way you don't need to enable or disable a clock in irq context. > > > > > You may want to disable a clock in the IRQ handler. The VPU driver in > > the Freescale BSP for i.MX51 does exactly this. > > Anyway I don't see any reason for using a mutex here instead of > > spin_lock_irq_save() as all other implementations do. > > Because you suddenly make it impossible to sleep inside enable/disable ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ??? All implementations so far use spin_lock_irq_save()! How would you be able to sleep with a mutex held? If you hold a lock you must not sleep, no matter what sort of lock it is. Lothar Wa?mann -- ___________________________________________________________ Ka-Ro electronics GmbH | Pascalstra?e 22 | D - 52076 Aachen Phone: +49 2408 1402-0 | Fax: +49 2408 1402-10 Gesch?ftsf?hrer: Matthias Kaussen Handelsregistereintrag: Amtsgericht Aachen, HRB 4996 www.karo-electronics.de | info@karo-electronics.de ___________________________________________________________ -- 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/