Re: [RFC v3 3/7] platform/x86: intel_pmc_ipc: Use regmap calls for GCR updates

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 4:16 AM, sathyanarayanan kuppuswamy
<sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/01/2017 07:48 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 8:37 AM,
>> <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Since it sounds as candidate for stable,
>
> Yes.
>>
>> can we have split it to just
>> as less as possible intrusive fix + moving to regmap as a separate
>> change?
>
> If we have to split it into two patches then,
>
> Patch #1 will fix the "sleep in atomic context issue" by replacing
> mutex_lock() with spin_lock()
> in GCR read/write APIs to protect the GCR memory updates.
> Patch #2 will remove GCR read/write/update APIs and replace it with regmap
> APIs. But along with this
> change we will also remove the spin_lock() added in previous patch because
> regmap calls are already
> protected by its own locking mechanism.
>
> Since Patch #2 will clean up what we do in Patch #1, Do we need to split it
> into two patches?

Yes, please do...

>> It should include Fixes: tag as well I suppose.
>
> Agree. I will add Fixes tag in next version.

...because this one will go alone to stable releases.

Be also sure patch #1 will be applied on current vanilla (w/o PDx86
queue involvement).

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko