Re: [PATCH 2/2] dma:of: Use a mutex to protect the of_dma_list

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Saturday 20 April 2013, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> On 04/20/2013 12:45 AM, Jon Hunter wrote:
> > I think that there is a problem here. For controllers using the
> > of_dma_simple_xlate(), this will call dma_request_channel() which also
> > uses a mutex.
> 
> That would only be a problem if it'd use the same mutex. Holding two mutexes at
> the same time is not a problem per se.
> 

I guess Jon originlly tried it with a spinlock as the outer lock, which indeed
does not work, but the new version does not have this problem.

	Arnd
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