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From: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
	zajec5@gmail.com, hauke@hauke-m.de
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bcma: Replace mdelay with usleep_range in bcma_pmu_resources_init
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 00:33:49 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f8c701d1-853f-ab35-15c8-451330ab02f4@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b0ae2efe-9b90-0e5f-d53a-d045e76b213c@lwfinger.net>



On 2018/1/27 0:26, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 01/26/2018 03:13 AM, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
>> After checking all possible call chains to bcma_pmu_resources_init() 
>> here,
>> my tool finds that this function is never called in atomic context,
>> namely never in an interrupt handler or holding a spinlock.
>> Thus mdelay can be replaced with usleep_range to avoid busy wait.
>>
>> This is found by a static analysis tool named DCNS written by myself.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/bcma/driver_chipcommon_pmu.c |    2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/bcma/driver_chipcommon_pmu.c 
>> b/drivers/bcma/driver_chipcommon_pmu.c
>> index f1eb4d3..478948c 100644
>> --- a/drivers/bcma/driver_chipcommon_pmu.c
>> +++ b/drivers/bcma/driver_chipcommon_pmu.c
>> @@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ static void bcma_pmu_resources_init(struct 
>> bcma_drv_cc *cc)
>>        * Add some delay; allow resources to come up and settle.
>>        * Delay is required for SoC (early init).
>>        */
>> -    mdelay(2);
>> +    usleep_range(1500, 2000);
>
> I have no idea how critical this delay might be, but it would be safer 
> to never make the sleep be shorter than the original delay. Using 
> (2000, 2500) would be a better choice of arguments for usleep_range().

Okay, I have used usleep_range(2000, 2500) and sent patch v2.


Thanks,
Jia-Ju Bai

      reply	other threads:[~2018-01-26 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-26  9:13 Jia-Ju Bai
2018-01-26 16:13 ` Kalle Valo
2018-01-26 16:27   ` Larry Finger
2018-01-26 16:26 ` Larry Finger
2018-01-26 16:33   ` Jia-Ju Bai [this message]

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