Re: [PATCH RESEND v2 2/5] clk: mxl: Remove unnecessary spinlocks

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Wed Sep 28 2022 - 20:16:45 EST


Quoting Rahul Tanwar (2022-09-21 23:24:25)
> This driver is now switched from direct readl/writel based register
> access to regmap based register acceess. Regmap already has its own
> lock to serialize the register accesses across multiple cores.
>
> Hence, there is no need for additional spinlocks in the driver.
> Remove all spinlocks which are no longer required.

Can you confirm that the driver doesn't do a read, modify, write (rmw)
sequence where during the modification another CPU can rmw and corrupt
the previous "read"?