[PATCH 3/6] dma: coh901318_lli: avoid unbalanced locking

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Fri Feb 15 09:52:10 EST 2013


On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com> wrote:

> I have not checked the code but there is a possibility that custom pool->lock
> is not needed at all due to dma_pool contains it's own lock.

Can you please change the description to something like:

"The coh901318_lli allocator releases a lock on the exit path without
taking it first".

Which is what the patch is actually fixing.

After that it's Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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