On 1/17/2015 2:40 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 01:26:41PM -0800, Ray Jui wrote:
>>      time_left = wait_for_completion_timeout(&iproc_i2c->done, time_left);
>>
>>      /* disable all interrupts */
>>      writel(0, iproc_i2c->base + IE_OFFSET);
>>
>>      if (!time_left && !atomic_read(&iproc_i2c->transfer_is_successful)) {
> 
> Why are you using atomic_read() here?
> 
transfer_is_successful 1) will be reset to 0 in this function (before
kick start the I2C transfer), 2) will be set to 1 in the ISR (to signal
completion of the I2C transfer), and 3) will be checked in this function
here. I thought that means I should declare it volatile, because it can
be modified in both the process context and interrupt context (and I use
atomic because I remember Linux checkpatch warns against using volatile)?
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