Re: [PATCH v2] net: fec: Use unlocked timecounter reads for saving state
From: Csókás Bence <hidden>
Date: 2022-08-31 13:09:15
From: Csókás Bence <hidden>
Date: 2022-08-31 13:09:15
On 2022. 08. 30. 17:21, Andrew Lunn wrote:
You are not taking a mutex, you are taking a spinlock. You can do that in atomic context. Can you protect everything which needs protecting with a spinlock? And avoid sleeping...
You are correct, the issue Marc experienced turns out to be caused by a `mutex_lock()` introduced in 6a4d7234ae9a3bb31181f348ade9bbdb55aeb5c5... On 2022. 08. 31. 5:41, Richard Cochran wrote: > Just replace the mutex with a spinlock. Will do. Disregard this patch and see "[PATCH] Use a spinlock to guard `fep->ptp_clk_on`" instead Bence