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Re: [PATCH] serdev: Restore serdev_device_write_buf for atomic context

From Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] serdev: Restore serdev_device_write_buf for atomic context
Date 2017-05-02 14:50 +0200
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On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 4:06 AM, Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 01:47:21PM +0200, Stefan Wahren wrote:
>> Starting with commit 6fe729c4bdae ("serdev: Add serdev_device_write
>> subroutine") the function serdev_device_write_buf cannot be used in
>> atomic context anymore (mutex_lock is sleeping). So restore the old
>> behavior.
>
> Yeah, preventing use in atomic context seems unnecessary, although any
> clients writing must now deal with serialisation themselves (as before,
> and as they should).

We could just remove the mutex for serdev_device_write and always make
the client responsible for serialization.

> Calling wait_for_completion in the non-blocking case was also needlessly
> inefficient.

It won't be called because count should be 0.

Rob

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[PATCH] serdev: Restore serdev_device_write_buf for atomic context Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com> - 2017-04-28 13:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] serdev: Restore serdev_device_write_buf for atomic  context Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> - 2017-05-02 11:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] serdev: Restore serdev_device_write_buf for atomic context Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2017-05-02 14:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] serdev: Restore serdev_device_write_buf for atomic  context Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> - 2017-05-02 15:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] serdev: Restore serdev_device_write_buf for atomic  context Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com> - 2017-05-04 18:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] serdev: Restore serdev_device_write_buf for atomic context Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2017-05-04 22:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] serdev: Restore serdev_device_write_buf for atomic  context Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> - 2017-05-08 17:20 +0200

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