[PATCH] I2C: fix recently introduced race in IBM PPC4xx I2C driver
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 10:21:08PM -0700, Eugene Surovegin wrote: [snip] > It looks like this change added race I tried to avoid here. > > This code is modeled after __wait_event_interruptible_timeout, where > "prepare_to_wait" is done _before_ checking completion status. This > change breaks this, e.g. if IRQ happens right after we check iic->sts, > but before calling msleep_interruptible(). In this case we'll sleep > much more than required (seconds instead of microseconds) > > Greg, if my analysis is correct, please rollback this change. > > Nishanth, I'd be nice if you CC'ed me with this patch, my e-mail is at > the top of that source file. Oh, well. I should have used wait_event_interruptible_timeout when I ported this driver to 2.6. This patch fixes recently introduced race and also cleans ups some 2.4-ism. Signed-off-by: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
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