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The "multi-function" gpio_lock is pretty much useless with how it's used in GPIOLIB currently. Because many GPIO API calls can be called from all contexts but may also call into sleeping driver callbacks, there are many places with utterly broken workarounds like yielding the lock to call a possibly sleeping function and then re-acquiring it again without taking into account that the protected state may have changed. It was also used to protect several unrelated things: like individual descriptors AND the GPIO device list. We now serialize access to these two with SRCU and so can finally remove the spinlock. There is of course the question of consistency of lockless access to GPIO descriptors. Because we only support exclusive access to GPIOs (officially anyway, I'm looking at you broken GPIOD_FLAGS_BIT_NONEXCLUSIVE bit...) and the API contract with providers does not guarantee serialization, it's enough to ensure we cannot accidentally dereference an invalid pointer and that the state we present to both users and providers remains consistent. To achieve that: read the flags field atomically except for a few special cases. Read their current value before executing callback code and use this value for any subsequent logic. Modifying the flags depends on the particular use-case and can differ. For instance: when requesting a GPIO, we need to set the REQUESTED bit immediately so that the next user trying to request the same line sees -EBUSY. While at it: the allocations that used GFP_ATOMIC until this point can now switch to GFP_KERNEL. Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.