On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 11:37:37AM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 03:28:07AM +0100, Salah Triki wrote:
> > dgnc_poll_tick is declared global, so dgnc_driver_pollrate_store needs to 
> > take the
> > lock dgnc_poll_lock before modifying this variable. dgnc_poll_lock is the
> > appropriate lock, since it is intended for poll scheduling and 
> > dgnc_poll_tick
> > contains the poll rate. dgnc_poll_lock needs to be declare not static and
> > extern in order to be visible for dgnc_driver_pollrate_store.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Salah Triki <salah.tr...@acm.org>
> > ---
> <snip>
> > +   spin_lock_irqsave(&dgnc_poll_lock, flags);
> If I remember correctly Greg asked why you are using spin_lock_irqsave()?
> 
> If you need to lock why you are not using mutex here?
> 
> regards
> sudip

dgnc_poll_lock is declared spinlock_t, that's way I use spin_lock_irqsave().

best regards
salah triki
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