On 1/17/2015 2:40 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 01:26:41PM -0800, Ray Jui wrote: >> time_left = wait_for_completion_timeout(&iproc_i2c->done, time_left); >> >> /* disable all interrupts */ >> writel(0, iproc_i2c->base + IE_OFFSET); >> >> if (!time_left && !atomic_read(&iproc_i2c->transfer_is_successful)) { > > Why are you using atomic_read() here? > transfer_is_successful 1) will be reset to 0 in this function (before kick start the I2C transfer), 2) will be set to 1 in the ISR (to signal completion of the I2C transfer), and 3) will be checked in this function here. I thought that means I should declare it volatile, because it can be modified in both the process context and interrupt context (and I use atomic because I remember Linux checkpatch warns against using volatile)? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html