Hello Eddie, On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 08:31:14PM +0800, Eddie Huang wrote: > On Mon, 2015-03-16 at 16:30 +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 05:27:56PM +0800, Eddie Huang wrote: > > > [...] > > > +static u16 rtc_read(struct mt6397_rtc *rtc, u32 offset) > > rtc_read is a bad name for a driver. There are already 6 functions with > > this name in the kernel. Better use a unique prefix. > > I will use prefix mtk_ I would prefer a prefix that is unique to the driver. "mtk_" doesn't work to distinguish between the rtc and a (say) spi driver. What you want here is that if someone reports a bug on any mailinglist with a backtrace you are able to immediately see which driver is affected. > > > [...] > > > +static irqreturn_t rtc_irq_handler_thread(int irq, void *data) > > > +{ > > > + struct mt6397_rtc *rtc = data; > > > + u16 irqsta, irqen; > > > + > > > + mutex_lock(&rtc->lock); > > > + irqsta = rtc_read(rtc, RTC_IRQ_STA); > > Do you really need to lock for a single read access? > > I think this lock is necessary, because other thread may access rtc > register at the same time, for example, call mtk_rtc_set_alarm to modify > alarm time. That would be a valid reason if mtk_rtc_set_alarm touched that register twice in a single critical section and the handler must not read the value of the first write. Otherwise it should be fine, shouldn't it? > > > +static int mtk_rtc_set_time(struct device *dev, struct rtc_time *tm) > > > +{ > > > + struct mt6397_rtc *rtc = dev_get_drvdata(dev); > > > + > > > + tm->tm_year -= RTC_MIN_YEAR_OFFSET; > > > + tm->tm_mon++; > > > + mutex_lock(&rtc->lock); > > > + rtc_write(rtc, RTC_TC_YEA, tm->tm_year); > > > + rtc_write(rtc, RTC_TC_MTH, tm->tm_mon); > > > + rtc_write(rtc, RTC_TC_DOM, tm->tm_mday); > > > + rtc_write(rtc, RTC_TC_HOU, tm->tm_hour); > > > + rtc_write(rtc, RTC_TC_MIN, tm->tm_min); > > > + rtc_write(rtc, RTC_TC_SEC, tm->tm_sec); > > Is this racy? I.e. what happens if RTC_TC_SEC overflows just before you > > write to it but after you wrote RTC_TC_MIN? > > register value will write to hardware after rtc_write_trigger, so the > racy condition not exist. Ah, it seems the hardware guys did their job. Nice. Best regards Uwe -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-König | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | -- 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