[PATCH 0/3] dma: mv_xor: spinlock related improvements

Ezequiel Garcia ezequiel.garcia at free-electrons.com
Fri Dec 27 10:54:36 EST 2013


On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 12:38:31PM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Vinod, Dan,
> 
> Here are three patches that make improvements to the spinlock handling
> of the mv_xor driver. The first patch fixes a lock/release of the
> channel spinlock in mv_xor_status(), and the next two patches make
> followup code improvements/refactoring.
> 
> Ezequiel, it would be good to have your review on these patches, since
> I know you've spent some time lately doing mv_xor stuff.
> 

Spinlocks aren't the easiest thing to get right, and this driver is not
particularly simple. Anyway, to the best of my knowledge:

Reviewed-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia at free-electrons.com>
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