On 11/7/21 10:48 PM, Adrian Hunter wrote:
hba->outstanding_tasks, which is read under host_lock spinlock, tells the interrupt handler what task management tags are in use by the driver. The doorbell register bits indicate which tags are in use by the hardware. A doorbell bit that is 0 is because the bit has yet to be set by the driver, or because the task is complete. It is only possible to disambiguate the 2 cases, if reading/writing the doorbell register is synchronized with reading/writing hba->outstanding_tasks. For that reason, reading REG_UTP_TASK_REQ_DOOR_BELL must be done under spinlock.
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx>
