[PATCH 1/7] omap: iommu: migrate to the generic IOMMU API

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Roedel, Joerg [off-list ref] wrote:

Yes, it should be safe in your context. But the iommu-api is generic and
I would prefer that all functions it provides can be called from any
context.

Not a problem.

I thought you only cared about map/unmap, but if you prefer
attach/deattach to be atomic too, I'll migrate the driver to use a
spin lock.

Or is the time required for attaching/detaching too long so that it
makes sense to put secondary threads to sleep?

It doesn't look like it. I think a mutex was originally chosen at that
point because those functions were used in a process context.

Thanks,
Ohad.