Re: [RFC,PATCH 1/2] Add a common struct clk

From: Uwe Kleine-König
Date: Mon Jun 14 2010 - 05:35:16 EST


Hello,

> And arch/arm/plat-s3c/clock.c has the following comment:
> |/* We originally used an mutex here, but some contexts (see resume)
> | * are calling functions such as clk_set_parent() with IRQs disabled
> | * causing an BUG to be triggered.
> | */
> |DEFINE_SPINLOCK(clocks_lock);
I wonder why it's needed to reparent clocks during resume. And where
exactly IRQs are disabled. Hmm, this comment was initially introduced
by v2.6.28-rc7-180-gc3391e3, its commit log talks about cpufreq, not
resume.

Ben (Dooks): Is this still relevant?

Best regards
Uwe

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