Hi Simon,
On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 4:33 PM Simon Horman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 10:49:44PM +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> > Protect the CPG register read-modify-write sequence with a spinlock.
>
> Spinlocks are expensive, I think an explanation of why this is
> necessary would be worthwhile.
Some clock registers contain bits for multiple clocks.
Hence read-modify-write cycles on these registers should be protected
against concurrent accesses for multiple clocks.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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