Re: [PATCH net-next v2 10/15] net: lan969x: add PTP handler function

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On Thu, 31 Oct 2024 09:36:28 +0000 Daniel Machon wrote:
> > For a followup for both drivers -- you're mixing irqsave and bare
> > spin_lock() here. The _irqsave/_irqrestore is not necessary, let's
> > drop it.
> >   
> > > +             spin_lock(&sparx5->ptp_ts_id_lock);  
> 
> Hi Jakub,
> 
> I agree it seems wrong to mix these.
> 
> I just talked to Horatiu, and he mentioned posting a similar fix for the
> lan966x driver some time ago [1]. Only this fix added
> _irqsave/_irqrestore to the ptp_ts_id_lock - so basically the opposite
> of what you are suggesting. Why do you think that the
> _irqsave/_irqrestore is not necessary?

Oh, I thought this is a real IRQ handler, not a threaded one.
I haven't read the code to figure out whether ptp_ts_id_lock
needs to be IRQ-safe, but in other places you lock if _irqsave
so yes, let's irqsave here, too.




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