Re: [PATCH 6/8] [POWERPC] sysdev,qe_lib: implement FSL GTM support

[Laurent Pinchart]

On Tuesday 11 March 2008 18:24, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> GTM stands for General-purpose Timers Module and able to generate
> timer{1,2,3,4} interrupts.
> 
> There are several limitations in this support:
> 1. Cascaded (32 bit) timers unimplemented (1-2, 3-4).
>    This is straightforward to implement when needed, two timers should
>    be marked as "requested" and configured as appropriate.
> 2. Super-cascaded (64 bit) timers unimplemented (1-2-3-4).
>    This is also straightforward to implement when needed, all timers
>    should be marked as "requested" and configured as appropriate.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[snip]

> +void gtm_stop_timer_16(struct gtm_timer *tmr)
> +{
> +     struct gtm *gtm = tmr->gtm;
> +     int num = tmr - &gtm->timers[0];
> +     unsigned long flags;
> +
> +     spin_lock_irqsave(&gtm->lock, flags);
> +
> +     setbits8(tmr->gtcfr, GTCFR_STP(num));

Shouldn't we clear the timer events with

out_be16(tmr->gtevr, 0xFFFF);

here ? Otherwise the timer interrupt could still fire after the timer is 
stopped. This introduces a race condition in drivers that blindly re-arm the 
timer in the interrupt handler. I've been bitten by this while porting your 
FHCI USB driver to a CPM2 platform.

> +
> +     spin_unlock_irqrestore(&gtm->lock, flags);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(gtm_stop_timer_16);

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