Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] iommu/tegra-smmu: Expand mutex protection range

From: Nicolin Chen
Date: Tue Sep 29 2020 - 20:37:02 EST


On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 08:42:52PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> 29.09.2020 09:13, Nicolin Chen пишет:
> > This is used to protect potential race condition at use_count.
> > since probes of client drivers, calling attach_dev(), may run
> > concurrently.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nicolin Chen <nicoleotsuka@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> It's always better not to mix success and error code paths in order to
> keep code readable, but not a big deal in the case of this particular
> patch since the changed code is quite simple. Please try to avoid doing
> this in the future patches.
>
> Also, please note that in general it's better to use locked/unlocked
> versions for the functions like it's already done for
> tegra_smmu_map/unmap, this will remove the need to maintain lockings in
> the code. The code touched by this patch doesn't have complicated code
> paths, so it's good enough to me.
>
> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@xxxxxxxxx>

Okay. Thanks for the review!