On 06/09/15 05:20, Peter Chen wrote: > On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 09:43:38AM -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote: >> Hi, >> >>> + >>> +static irqreturn_t dwc3_otg_irq(int irq, void *_dwc) >>> +{ >>> + struct dwc3 *dwc = _dwc; >>> + irqreturn_t ret = IRQ_NONE; >>> + u32 reg; >>> + >>> + spin_lock(&dwc->lock); >> >> this seems unnecessary, we're already in hardirq with IRQs disabled. >> What sort of race could we have ? (in fact, this also needs change in >> dwc3/gadget.c). >> > > Is it possible the kernel process is accessing the content you will > access? > When kernel process accesses the data we'll never reach here as we're protecting it with spinlock_irqsave(), spinunlock_irqrestore(). cheers, -roger -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html