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Commitcea443a81c("i2c: Support i2c_transfer in atomic contexts") added in_atomic() to the I2C core. However, the use of in_atomic() outside of core kernel code is discouraged and was already[1] when this code was added in early 2008. The above commit was a preparation for commitb7a3670131("i2c-pxa: Add polling transfer"). Its commit message says explicitly it was added "for cases where I2C transactions have to occur at times interrup[t]s are disabled". So, the intention was 'disabled interrupts'. This matches the use cases for atomic I2C transfers I have seen so far: very late communication (mostly to a PMIC) to powerdown or reboot the system. For those cases, interrupts are disabled then. It doesn't seem that in_atomic() adds value. After a discussion with Peter Zijlstra[2], we came up with a better set of conditionals to match the use case. The I2C core will soon gain an extra callback into bus drivers especially for atomic transfers to make them more generic. The code deciding which transfer to use (atomic/non-atomic) should mimic the behaviour which locking to use (trylock/lock). This is why we add a helper for it. [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/274695/ [2] http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1067437/ Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com> Reviewed-by Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Stefan Lengfeld <contact@stefanchrist.eu> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Linux kernel
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