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| author | Richard Röjfors <richard.rojfors@pelagicore.com> | 2010-03-26 08:23:58 +0100 |
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| committer | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2010-03-26 16:08:20 -0700 |
| commit | 0f65169b1bf44220308e1ce1f6666ad03ddc27af (patch) | |
| tree | 90f1e1955d63e876409ce54d8b9cbaf832619671 /drivers/dma | |
| parent | de5d4453c5b224eefd02b6a141ed411a76d458af (diff) | |
dma: timb-dma: Update comment and fix compiler warning
An incremental patch which clarifies what the spinlock is used for
and fixes a compiler warning.
Signed-off-by: Richard Röjfors <richard.rojfors@pelagicore.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/dma')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/dma/timb_dma.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/dma/timb_dma.c b/drivers/dma/timb_dma.c index 4dd710246c7..145f1c23408 100644 --- a/drivers/dma/timb_dma.c +++ b/drivers/dma/timb_dma.c @@ -79,7 +79,10 @@ struct timb_dma_desc { struct timb_dma_chan { struct dma_chan chan; void __iomem *membase; - spinlock_t lock; /* Used for mutual exclusion */ + spinlock_t lock; /* Used to protect data structures, + especially the lists and descriptors, + from races between the tasklet and calls + from above */ dma_cookie_t last_completed_cookie; bool ongoing; struct list_head active_list; @@ -197,7 +200,7 @@ static int td_fill_desc(struct timb_dma_chan *td_chan, u8 *dma_desc, } dev_dbg(chan2dev(&td_chan->chan), "desc: %p, addr: %p\n", - dma_desc, (void *)(int)sg_dma_address(sg)); + dma_desc, (void *)sg_dma_address(sg)); dma_desc[7] = (sg_dma_address(sg) >> 24) & 0xff; dma_desc[6] = (sg_dma_address(sg) >> 16) & 0xff; |