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authorSylvain Chouleur <sylvain.chouleur@intel.com>2016-07-15 21:36:30 +0200
committerMatt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>2016-09-09 16:08:42 +0100
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parentefi: Use a file local lock for efivars (diff)
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efi: Don't use spinlocks for efi vars
All efivars operations are protected by a spinlock which prevents interruptions and preemption. This is too restricted, we just need a lock preventing concurrency. The idea is to use a semaphore of count 1 and to have two ways of locking, depending on the context: - In interrupt context, we call down_trylock(), if it fails we return an error - In normal context, we call down_interruptible() We don't use a mutex here because the mutex_trylock() function must not be called from interrupt context, whereas the down_trylock() can. Signed-off-by: Sylvain Chouleur <sylvain.chouleur@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Sylvain Chouleur <sylvain.chouleur@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
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