On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 03:25:49PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > * Zubair Lutfullah | 2013-08-13 21:05:03 [+0100]: > > >diff --git a/drivers/iio/adc/ti_am335x_adc.c b/drivers/iio/adc/ti_am335x_adc.c > >index 3ceac3e..0d7e313 100644 > >--- a/drivers/iio/adc/ti_am335x_adc.c > >+++ b/drivers/iio/adc/ti_am335x_adc.c > >@@ -141,58 +350,51 @@ static int tiadc_read_raw(struct iio_dev *indio_dev, > > { > … > >+ if (iio_buffer_enabled(indio_dev)) > >+ return -EBUSY; > >+ else { > > You can drop else so you lose one ident level. > Noted. > >+ unsigned long timeout = jiffies + usecs_to_jiffies > >+ (IDLE_TIMEOUT * adc_dev->channels); > > What computing this once? ->channels is assigned at probe time. > The timeout depends on number of SW enabled channels. Hence the calculation. In this read_raw, one channel is to be read. However, all channels are sampled. And the one that the userspace requires is pushed to user. > >+ /* Wait for ADC sequencer to complete sampling */ > >+ while (tiadc_readl(adc_dev, REG_ADCFSM) & SEQ_STATUS) { > >+ if (time_after(jiffies, timeout)) > >+ return -EAGAIN; > > You should check the condition after the timeout occured once again. It > is possible that the task performing the read has been pushed away by a > higher prio task (or preempted incase this sounds like a bully) and > after it got back on the cpu the timeout occured but the condition is > valid and no reason for -EAGAIN. > > Sebastian Interesting catch. I'll look into it. Thanks for pointing it out. Zubair -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html