Re: staging: r8188eu: how to handle nested mutex under spinlock

[Michael Straube]

On 4/3/22 13:56, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> On domenica 3 aprile 2022 13:48:31 CEST Pavel Skripkin wrote:
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > msleep() cannot be called in atomic context:
> >
> > drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_pwrctrl.c:379
> >
> >    	if (pwrpriv->ps_processing) {
> >    		while (pwrpriv->ps_processing && rtw_get_passing_time_ms(start) <= 3000)
> >    			msleep(10);
> >    	}

Ah, just another issue...

> I wanted to use mdelay() (allowed under spinlocks because it does not
> sleep) but Dan said to leave it as it is. You might easily find this
> discussion on this list. I cannot remember why Dan was against replacing
> msleep() with mdelay(). Please try to find that thread.

I'll take a breath and look further into it later. Seems a solution like
the one Larry mentioned is reasonable here.

Thank you both,
Michael