2016-12-27 12:05 GMT+01:00 Felipe Balbi <ba...@kernel.org>:
> Hi,
>
> Lu Baolu <baolu...@linux.intel.com> writes:
>> On 12/26/2016 04:01 PM, Baolin Wang wrote:
>>> On some platfroms(like x86 platform), when one core is running the USB 
>>> gadget
>>> irq thread handler by dwc3_thread_interrupt(), meanwhile another core also 
>>> can
>>> respond other interrupts from dwc3 controller and modify the event buffer by
>>> dwc3_interrupt() function, that will cause getting the wrong event count in
>>> irq thread handler to make the USB function abnormal.
>>>
>>> We should add spin_lock/unlock() in dwc3_check_event_buf() to avoid this 
>>> race.
>>
>> Why not spin_lock_irq ones? This lock seems to be used in both
>> normal and interrupt threads. Or, I missed anything?
>
> this is top half handler. Interrupts are already disabled.
>
BTW,
We don't use spin_lock in top half handler.
Maybe we should/can switch all spin_lock_irqsave() to simple
spin_lock() in the thread/callbacks?
Or there is a reason to use irqsave() version?

BR
Janusz

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