[patch 12/12] usb: atm: Replace in_interrupt() usage in comment

Thomas Gleixner tglx at linutronix.de
Wed Oct 14 10:52:27 EDT 2020


in_interrupt() is a pretty vague context description as it means: hard
interrupt, soft interrupt or bottom half disabled regions.

Replace the vague comment with a proper reasoning why spin_lock_irqsave()
needs to be used.

Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <a.darwish at linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy at linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Cc: Duncan Sands <duncan.sands at free.fr>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-usb at vger.kernel.org

---
 drivers/usb/atm/usbatm.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/usb/atm/usbatm.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/atm/usbatm.c
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ static void usbatm_complete(struct urb *
 	/* vdbg("%s: urb 0x%p, status %d, actual_length %d",
 	     __func__, urb, status, urb->actual_length); */
 
-	/* usually in_interrupt(), but not always */
+	/* Can be invoked from task context, protect against interrupts */
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&channel->lock, flags);
 
 	/* must add to the back when receiving; doesn't matter when sending */




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