Re: [PATCH] USB host: Fix lockdep warning in AMD PLL quirk

[Roedel, Joerg]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 11:16:07AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> >  	amd_chipset.probe_count++;
> >  	/* probe only once */
> >  	if (amd_chipset.probe_count > 1) {
> >  		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&amd_lock, flags);
> >  		return amd_chipset.probe_result;
> >  	}
> 
> The counter really should be a bool: Has the chipset already been
> probed or not?  After all, nobody cares how many times this routine was 
> called.

The quirk function needs a re-structuring anyway. The code-path is not
very straight-forward and readable. But for this fix I tried to keep the
changes small.

> 
> > +	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&amd_lock, flags);
> 
> This code now contains a bug: You incremented the probe_count _before_
> doing the probe.  If another thread calls this routine right now, it
> will get an incorrect result.
> 
> Fixing this up should be fairly easy.

Okay, I will do. Thanks for the feedback.

	Joerg

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