Re: [PATCH 2/6] dmaengine: rcar-dmac: Fix spinlock issues in interrupt

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Hello.

On 01/27/2015 08:25 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:

[...]
Furthermore, as the driver can be used on SMP systems, the IRQ handlers
must use spin_lock_irqsave() instead of spin_lock().

   Hmm, care to explain why? It's the first time I'm hearing that...
This looks especially strange in the context of the current genirq code calling IRQ handlers with interrupts always disabled.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

WBR, Sergei

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