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HID: hidraw: Replace hidraw device table mutex with a rwsem
Currently, the table that stores information about the connected hidraw devices has a mutex to prevent concurrent hidraw users to manipulate the hidraw table (e.g. delete an entry) while someone is trying to use the table (e.g. issuing an ioctl to the device), preventing the kernel to referencing a NULL pointer. However, since that every user that wants to access the table for both manipulating it and reading it content, this prevents concurrent access to the table for read-only operations for different or the same device (e.g. two hidraw ioctls can't happen at the same time, even if they are completely unrelated). This proves to be a bottleneck and gives performance issues when using multiple HID devices at same time, like VR kits where one can have two controllers, the headset and some tracking sensors. To improve the performance, replace the table mutex with a read-write semaphore, enabling multiple threads to issue parallel syscalls to multiple devices at the same time while protecting the table for concurrent modifications. Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@collabora.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211130132957.8480-2-andrealmeid@collabora.com
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