Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756957Ab1BRSvk (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:51:40 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.10]:50158 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753338Ab1BRSvg (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:51:36 -0500 From: Arnd Bergmann To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 13/13] tty: pruss SUART driver Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:51:32 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.38-rc2+; KDE/4.5.1; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Alan Cox , sachi@mistralsolutions.com, davinci-linux-open-source@linux.davincidsp.com, Subhasish Ghosh , "Greg Kroah-Hartman" , nsekhar@ti.com, open list , m-watkins@ti.com References: <1297435892-28278-1-git-send-email-subhasish@mistralsolutions.com> <20110218143500.23b3044b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201102181951.32631.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:OfNM+Xj4fDWJ8l3rD54pjafAuiVQ744N1QAomPkezbk D32iQFZr8ZnZd75xW2DJ4DTdE+y4YLACsag9VDxUh6+DFgkLfo yya77XpYcpKeGvXudDnKcY8pzB9nDMZs/STpWbSvKfkO2puKbv /jD1wkHkWce31PeBWIyep36QLzHRGdHtWNWxw7oZuz7cdjp6bT Q0IuF7+RntIOv4hIHIN4A== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1493 Lines: 37 On Friday 18 February 2011 19:23:49 Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Alan Cox wrote: > > > On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:17:38 +0530 > > "Subhasish Ghosh" wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > Regarding the semaphore to mutex migration. > > > We are using down_trylock in interrupt context, > > > mutex_trylock cannot be used in interrupt context, so we cannot use mutex in > > > our driver. > > > > Then you probably need to rework your locking. Best bet might be to fix > > all the other stuff and report the driver, and people can think about the > > locking problem. > > That semaphore is utterly useless to begin with. There are more > serious locking problems than this one. Non serialized calls to > suart_intr_clrmask/suart_intr_setmask are the most obvious ones. > > Aside of that the code is complete unreadable. I think it mostly suffers from the same problem as the CAN driver I commented on earlier: One of the files (pruss_suart_api.c) was clearly not written with Linux as the target, and the other files try to work around this by wrapping a Linux driver around it. The suart_api HAL stuff clearly needs to go away, so that the rest can be rewritten into a proper device driver. Arnd -- 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/