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From: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
	Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] gpiolib: use a read-write semaphore to protect the GPIO device list
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 19:43:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231221184316.24506-1-brgl@bgdev.pl> (raw)

From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>

I'm still figuring out how to keep GPIO descriptors coherent while
(mostly) lockless. In the meantime, I found a potential race-condition
during GPIO descriptor lookup and also figured that the correct way to
protect the GPIO device list is actually a read-write semaphore as we're
not modifying the list very often and readers should be able to iterate
over it concurrently.

Bartosz Golaszewski (2):
  gpiolib: replace the GPIO device mutex with a read-write semaphore
  gpiolib: pin GPIO devices in place during descriptor lookup

 drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c |  2 +-
 drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c       | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 drivers/gpio/gpiolib.h       |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

-- 
2.40.1


             reply	other threads:[~2023-12-21 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-21 18:43 Bartosz Golaszewski [this message]
2023-12-21 18:43 ` [PATCH 1/2] gpiolib: replace the GPIO device mutex with a read-write semaphore Bartosz Golaszewski
2023-12-21 18:43 ` [PATCH 2/2] gpiolib: pin GPIO devices in place during descriptor lookup Bartosz Golaszewski
2023-12-21 19:03   ` Bartosz Golaszewski

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