Best practice to lock a read/write to a HW register

[Bernd Petrovitsch]

Hi!

On Don, 2013-11-14 at 11:32 +0100, Luca Ellero wrote:
[...]
> can someone please show me which is the best practice to lock a
> read/write to a hardware register.
> In other words if, in a driver, I want to modify a bit in a HW register,
> I have to read the register, set/reset the relevant bit and write back
> the reg.
> But what can I do to be sure that no other code modifies the register
> between my read and write?
> Is spin_lock() suitable for this purpose?

If the read-modify-write (read: the critical section) run-time is short,
a spin-lock is the usual means. If it is needed from IRQ-context - see
also other mails - you must use the *_irq() variant.

	Bernd
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