From: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
To: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Martin Schiller <ms@dev.tdt.de>,
linux-leds@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] leds: trigger: netdev: use mutex instead of spinlocks
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2023 14:45:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230424134502.GK50521@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230419210743.3594-6-ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
On Wed, 19 Apr 2023, Christian Marangi wrote:
> Some LEDs may require to sleep while doing some operation like setting
> brightness and other cleanup.
>
> For this reason, using a spinlock will cause a sleep under spinlock
> warning.
>
> It should be safe to convert this to a sleepable lock since:
> - sysfs read/write can sleep
> - netdev_trig_work is a work queue and can sleep
> - netdev _trig_notify can sleep
>
> The spinlock was used when brightness didn't support sleeping, but this
> changed and now it supported with brightness_set_blocking().
>
> Convert to mutex lock to permit sleeping using brightness_set_blocking().
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/leds/trigger/ledtrig-netdev.c | 18 +++++++++---------
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
Applied, thanks
--
Lee Jones [李琼斯]
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-24 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-19 21:07 [PATCH 0/5] leds: trigger: netdev: fixup preparation for LEDs hw control Christian Marangi
2023-04-19 21:07 ` [PATCH 1/5] leds: trigger: netdev: recheck NETDEV_LED_MODE_LINKUP on dev rename Christian Marangi
2023-04-20 0:21 ` Andrew Lunn
2023-04-24 13:42 ` Lee Jones
2023-04-19 21:07 ` [PATCH 2/5] leds: trigger: netdev: drop NETDEV_LED_MODE_LINKUP from mode Christian Marangi
2023-04-20 0:24 ` Andrew Lunn
2023-04-24 13:42 ` Lee Jones
2023-04-19 21:07 ` [PATCH 3/5] leds: trigger: netdev: rename add namespace to netdev trigger enum modes Christian Marangi
2023-04-20 0:29 ` Andrew Lunn
2023-04-24 13:44 ` Lee Jones
2023-04-19 21:07 ` [PATCH 4/5] leds: trigger: netdev: convert device attr to macro Christian Marangi
2023-04-20 0:26 ` Andrew Lunn
2023-04-24 13:44 ` Lee Jones
2023-04-19 21:07 ` [PATCH 5/5] leds: trigger: netdev: use mutex instead of spinlocks Christian Marangi
2023-04-20 0:27 ` Andrew Lunn
2023-04-24 13:45 ` Lee Jones [this message]
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