[PATCH] staging: comedi: ni_mio_common: always lock in ni_ai_poll()

Ian Abbott abbotti at mev.co.uk
Mon Sep 24 15:27:59 UTC 2012


`ni_ai_poll()` currently acquires (and later releases) the comedi
device's spin-lock iff `in_interrupt()` returns 0.  However, it is only
called during processing of a `COMEDI_POLL` ioctl so `in_interrupt()`
will always return 0 in this case.  Remove this test and acquire/release
the spin-lock unconditionally.  This eliminates a sparse warning about
different lock contexts for basic block.

Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti at mev.co.uk>
---
 drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_mio_common.c | 8 +++-----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_mio_common.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_mio_common.c
index 87995da..4bbb979 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_mio_common.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_mio_common.c
@@ -1766,20 +1766,18 @@ static int ni_ai_reset(struct comedi_device *dev, struct comedi_subdevice *s)
 
 static int ni_ai_poll(struct comedi_device *dev, struct comedi_subdevice *s)
 {
-	unsigned long flags = 0;
+	unsigned long flags;
 	int count;
 
 	/*  lock to avoid race with interrupt handler */
-	if (in_interrupt() == 0)
-		spin_lock_irqsave(&dev->spinlock, flags);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&dev->spinlock, flags);
 #ifndef PCIDMA
 	ni_handle_fifo_dregs(dev);
 #else
 	ni_sync_ai_dma(dev);
 #endif
 	count = s->async->buf_write_count - s->async->buf_read_count;
-	if (in_interrupt() == 0)
-		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->spinlock, flags);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->spinlock, flags);
 
 	return count;
 }
-- 
1.7.12




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