From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: thierry.reding@gmail.com
Cc: peppe.cavallaro@st.com, alexandre.torgue@st.com,
jonathanh@nvidia.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: stmmac: Use mutex instead of spinlock
Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 22:54:45 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180528.225445.996478506804495385.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180524140907.24197-1-thierry.reding@gmail.com>
From: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 16:09:07 +0200
> From: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
>
> Some drivers, such as DWC EQOS on Tegra, need to perform operations that
> can sleep under this lock (clk_set_rate() in tegra_eqos_fix_speed()) for
> proper operation. Since there is no need for this lock to be a spinlock,
> convert it to a mutex instead.
>
> Fixes: e6ea2d16fc61 ("net: stmmac: dwc-qos: Add Tegra186 support")
> Reported-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
> ---
> This applies on top of net-next.
Applied to net-next.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-29 2:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-24 14:09 Thierry Reding
2018-05-25 14:36 ` Bhadram Varka
2018-05-29 2:54 ` David Miller [this message]
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