Re: [PATCH V2 3/4] drivers: qcom: rpmh: switch over from spinlock irq variants

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Tue Jul 23 2019 - 14:25:00 EST


Quoting Lina Iyer (2019-07-22 14:53:39)
> From: "Raju P.L.S.S.S.N" <rplsssn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Switch over from using _irqsave/_irqrestore variants since we no longer
> race with a lock from the interrupt handler. While we are at it, rename
> the cache_lock to just lock to allow use of the lock to synchronize
> controller access.

Is there a reason why it can't be a mutex now?

>
> Signed-off-by: Raju P.L.S.S.S.N <rplsssn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Lina Iyer <ilina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>