Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:38:36 +0200 | From | Lars-Peter Clausen <> | Subject | Re: [RFC: PATCH 2/2] iio: adc: exynos_adc: Handle timeout and race conditions |
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On 04/05/2013 04:56 PM, Doug Anderson wrote: > Lars, > > On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 1:53 AM, Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de> wrote: >> Since we sleep inside the protected section we need to use a mutex. > > Ah, good point. > >> It's not the timeout case I'm worried about, but the case where the transfer >> is interrupted by the user. Even though it is rather unlikely for the >> problem to occur we should still try to avoid it, this is one of these >> annoying heisenbugs that happen once in a while and nobody is able to >> reproduce them. > > Yes, of course. Then we can also get extra confidence that the reset > logic works well by stressing out this case... :) > > This makes me think, though. Given how fast we expect the ADC > transaction to finish, would there be any benefit to making the wait > non-interruptible and then shortening the timeout a whole lot. If we > shortened to 1ms then we're really not "non-interruptible" for very > long and there's less chance of subtle bugs in the way that reset > works.
Yes, that could also work.
- Lars
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