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authorBartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>2024-01-15 12:17:43 +0100
committerBartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>2024-01-17 09:52:37 +0100
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tree193794eb3b6ba42ba5cd7de6ba6d2ce14a9c0e04 /Documentation
parent62b38f30a00ff47142e58d0a6d60dd296e0e8108 (diff)
gpiolib: revert the attempt to protect the GPIO device list with an rwsem
This reverts commits 1979a2807547 ("gpiolib: replace the GPIO device mutex with a read-write semaphore") and 65a828bab158 ("gpiolib: use a mutex to protect the list of GPIO devices"). Unfortunately the legacy GPIO API that's still used in older code has to translate numbers from the global GPIO numberspace to descriptors. This results in a GPIO device lookup in every call to legacy functions. Some of those functions - like gpio_set/get_value() - can be called from atomic context so taking a sleeping lock that is an RW semaphore results in an error. We'll probably have to protect this list with SRCU. Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/f7b5ff1e-8f34-4d98-a7be-b826cb897dc8@moroto.mountain/ Fixes: 1979a2807547 ("gpiolib: replace the GPIO device mutex with a read-write semaphore") Fixes: 65a828bab158 ("gpiolib: use a mutex to protect the list of GPIO devices") Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
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