spi: spi-dw: Remove extraneous locking
There is no point in having the commit 19b61392 ("spi: spi-dw: Add lock protect dw_spi rx/tx to prevent concurrent calls") applied. The commit author made an assumption that the problem with the rx data mismatch was due to the lack of the data protection. While most likely it was caused by the lack of the memory barrier. So having the commit bfda0445 ("spi: dw: use "smp_mb()" to avoid sending spi data error") applied would be enough to fix the problem. Indeed the spin unlock operation makes sure each memory operation issued before the release will be completed before it's completed. In other words it works as an implicit one way memory barrier. So having both smp_mb() and the spin_unlock_irqrestore() here is just redundant. One of them would be enough. It's better to leave the smp_mb() since the Tx/Rx buffers consistency is provided by the data transfer algorithm implementation: first we initialize the buffers pointers, then make sure the assignments are visible by the other CPUs by calling the smp_mb(), only after that enable the interrupt, which handler uses the buffers. Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200920112914.26501-5-Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ruSigned-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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