[PATCH v2 06/13] mailbox: change protection mechanisms
Suman Anna
s-anna at ti.com
Mon Feb 11 23:57:05 EST 2013
From: Loic Pallardy <loic.pallardy at st.com>
TX: replace spin by mutex to release CPU
during wait on mailbox resource.
Signed-off-by: Loic Pallardy <loic.pallardy at st.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
---
drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c | 5 +++--
drivers/mailbox/mailbox_internal.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c b/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c
index 6b43e7c..ff6595a 100644
--- a/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c
+++ b/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ int mailbox_msg_send(struct mailbox *mbox, struct mailbox_msg *msg)
struct mailbox_queue *mq = mbox->txq;
int ret = 0, len;
- spin_lock_bh(&mq->lock);
+ mutex_lock(&mq->mlock);
if (kfifo_avail(&mq->fifo) < (sizeof(msg) + msg->size)) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ int mailbox_msg_send(struct mailbox *mbox, struct mailbox_msg *msg)
tasklet_schedule(&mbox->txq->tasklet);
out:
- spin_unlock_bh(&mq->lock);
+ mutex_unlock(&mq->mlock);
return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(mailbox_msg_send);
@@ -289,6 +289,7 @@ static struct mailbox_queue *mbox_queue_alloc(struct mailbox *mbox,
return NULL;
spin_lock_init(&mq->lock);
+ mutex_init(&mq->mlock);
if (kfifo_alloc(&mq->fifo, mbox_kfifo_size, GFP_KERNEL))
goto error;
diff --git a/drivers/mailbox/mailbox_internal.h b/drivers/mailbox/mailbox_internal.h
index ba03910..04f83bf 100644
--- a/drivers/mailbox/mailbox_internal.h
+++ b/drivers/mailbox/mailbox_internal.h
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ struct mailbox_ops {
struct mailbox_queue {
spinlock_t lock;
+ struct mutex mlock;
struct kfifo fifo;
struct work_struct work;
struct tasklet_struct tasklet;
--
1.8.1.2
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