Re: [PATCH 4.19 83/92] mfd: dln2: Run event handler loop under spinlock

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 11:14:16AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 12:06:45PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 10:26 AM Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > [ Upstream commit 3d858942250820b9adc35f963a257481d6d4c81d ]
> > > >
> > > > The event handler loop must be run with interrupts disabled.
> > > > Otherwise we will have a warning:
> > > ...
> > > > Recently xHCI driver switched to tasklets in the commit 36dc01657b49
> > > > ("usb: host: xhci: Support running urb giveback in tasklet
> > > > context").
> > >
> > > AFAICT, 36dc01657b49 is not included in 4.19.141, so this commit
> > > should not be needed, either.
> > 
> > I'm wondering if there are any other USB host controller drivers that
> > use URB giveback in interrupt enabled context.
> 
> Almost all do.

Sorry, read that the wrong way, most have interrupts disabled, so this
change should be fine.

thanks,

greg k-h