[PATCH 1/1] ARM: ux500:mach-ux500/cpuidle.c spinlock dis-matching

steve.zhan zhanzhenbo at gmail.com
Fri Dec 28 02:06:25 EST 2012


Hi Daniel,

       I think we must unlock the master spinlock even
prcmu_gic_decouple function now always return 0.
       Could you give some infos about this?
Thanks.

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-ux500/cpuidle.c b/arch/arm/mach-ux500/cpuidle.c
index b54884bd..b0759ce 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-ux500/cpuidle.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-ux500/cpuidle.c
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ static inline int ux500_enter_idle(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
 {
        int this_cpu = smp_processor_id();
        bool recouple = false;
+       bool locked = false;

        clockevents_notify(CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_BROADCAST_ENTER, &this_cpu);

@@ -39,6 +40,8 @@ static inline int ux500_enter_idle(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
                if (!spin_trylock(&master_lock))
                        goto wfi;

+               locked = true;
+
                /* decouple the gic from the A9 cores */
                if (prcmu_gic_decouple())
                        goto out;
@@ -76,7 +79,7 @@ static inline int ux500_enter_idle(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
                /* When we switch to retention, the prcmu is in charge
                 * of recoupling the gic automatically */
                recouple = false;
-
+               locked = false;
                spin_unlock(&master_lock);
        }
 wfi:
@@ -86,7 +89,8 @@ out:

        if (recouple) {
                prcmu_gic_recouple();
-               spin_unlock(&master_lock);
+               if (locked)
+                       spin_unlock(&master_lock);
        }

        clockevents_notify(CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_BROADCAST_EXIT, &this_cpu);



Steve Zhan



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