Re: [PATCH v2 06/28] clk: renesas: rzg2l: remove critical area

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 7:39 AM Claudiu <claudiu.beznea@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea.uj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> spinlock in rzg2l_mod_clock_endisable() is intended to protect the accesses
> to hardware register. There is no need to protect the instructions that set
> temporary variable which will be then written to register. With this only
> one write to one clock register is executed thus locking/unlocking rmw_lock
> is removed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea.uj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Changes in v2:
> - removed also the spinlock
> - s/reduce/remove in patch title

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
i.e. will queue in renesas-clk-for-v6.7.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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