Re: [PATCH] LIS3LV02Dx Accelerometer driver (take 4)

[Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>]

Andrew Morton schreef:
>> +static void lis3lv02d_poweroff_timeout(unsigned long data)
>> +{
>> +	struct acpi_lis3lv02d *dev = (void *)data;
>> +
>> +	up(&dev->poff_sem);
>> +	lis3lv02d_poweroff(dev->device->handle);
>> +	down(&dev->poff_sem);
> 
> eek, no, we cannot down a semaphore from a timer handler!  It will lead
> to might_sleep() warnings, scheduling-in-atomic warnings and kernel
> deadlocks.
Ooh... What happened is that I wrote the other functions first. They
indirectly use acpi_evaluate_integer(), which can sleep. So I avoided
spin_locks, and decided to use a semaphore. But now there is a semaphore
in a timer (which is not allowed to sleep).

It seems the semaphore usage is compulsory due to acpi, so I'm planning
to change the timer into a scheduled work on a workqueue (with
queue_delayed_work(),  and cancel_delayed_work_sync()). This workqueue
could be the same as the one for the joystick input. Does that look the
right way to do it?

Eric