[PATCH 2/2] clocksource: armada-370-xp: Use atomic access for shared registers

[Daniel Lezcano]

On 02/20/2014 08:59 AM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 02/19/2014 09:05 PM, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
>> Replace the driver-specific thread-safe shared register API
>> by the recently introduced atomic_io_clear_set().
>
> Hi Ezequiel,
>
> AFAICS, the code is lockless, your change adds a lock.
>
> What race is it supposed to fix ?

Nevermind, I just noticed it is related to the watchdog driver.



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