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Implement locking in the hardware monitoring core for drivers using the _with_info() API functions. Most hardware monitoring drivers need to support locking to protect against parallel accesses from userspace. With older API functions, such locking had to be implemented in the driver code since sysfs attributes were created by the driver. However, the _with_info() API creates sysfs attributes in the hardware monitoring core. This makes it easy to move the locking primitives into that code. This has the benefit of simplifying driver code while at the same time reducing the risk of incomplete of bad locking implementations in hardware monitoring drivers. While this means that all accesses are forced to be synchronized, this has little if any practical impact since accesses are expected to be low frequency and are typically synchronized from userspace anyway since only a single process is accessing the data. On top of that, many drivers use regmap, which also has its own locking scheme and already serializes accesses. Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> |
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