[PATCH v2 02/17] firmware: arm_scmi: Reduce the scope of protocols mutex

Jonathan Cameron jonathan.cameron at huawei.com
Mon Jan 19 03:21:54 PST 2026


On Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:46:06 +0000
Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi at arm.com> wrote:

> Currently the mutex dedicated to the protection of the list of registered
> protocols is held during all the protocol initialization phase.
> 
> Such a wide locking region is not needed and causes problem when trying to
> initialize notifications from within a protocol initialization routine.
> 
> Reduce the scope of the protocol mutex.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi at arm.com>
I haven't checked carefully that the new scope is appropriate but
as a change in of itself, the code is correct and clean.
With that in mind.
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron at huawei.com>






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