Re: [PATCH v1] ASoC: meson: axg-fifo: set option to use raw spinlock

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2024-08-05 17:56:22 [+0100], Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 05, 2024 at 05:33:09PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure if making the lock a raw_spinlock_t solves all the
> > problems. The regmap is regmap_mmio so direct memory-access and looks
> > simple enough to do so. In regmap_mmio_write() I see clk_enable() and
> > and this uses a spinlock_t so we should be back at the same problem.
> 
> The clk_enable() is optional, users simply shouldn't use the internal
> clock management with devices that it'll cause problems for.
> 
> > There might be an additional problem if reg-caching is enabled.
> 
> The flat cache is there mostly for the benefit of things accessed from
> interrupt context, it guarantees to never do any allocations and doesn't
> lock.  You can also use other caches if you ensure that any registers
> accessed in interrupt context are already cached so won't trigger any
> new allocations.

My point is simply that those two things could complicate things further
if the desired fix is to (always) use raw_spinlock_t.

Sebastian