[PATCH v2 0/3] mv_xor: Spinlock cleanup

[Ezequiel Garcia]

On Mar 07, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> Vinod, Dan,
> 
> This series is v2 of the one previously sent by Thomas Petazzoni [1].
> I've tried to address the comments made by Andi and Dan, and also kept
> Thomas' ultimate goal: get rid of the mv_xor_slot_cleanup() function
> (which takes the spinlock).
> 
> The first patch removes the unneeded call to mv_xor_clean_completed_slots(),
> in mv_xor_as explained by Dan [2].
> 
> The other two patches replace the calls to mv_xor_slot_cleanup() with
> calls to __mv_xor_slot_cleanup(). This allows to have the same "spinlock held"
> requirement on all callers.
> 
> The patchset is based on v3.14-rc5 and has been tested on an Armada XP GP board.
> 
> [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg297176.html
> [2] http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg297518.html
> 
> Ezequiel Garcia (3):
>   dma: mv_xor: Remove unneeded mv_xor_clean_completed_slots() call
>   dma: mv_xor: Remove all callers of mv_xor_slot_cleanup()
>   dma: mv_xor: Rename __mv_xor_slot_cleanup() to mv_xor_slot_cleanup()
> 
>  drivers/dma/mv_xor.c | 24 +++++++++++-------------
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 

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