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gpio: protect the list of GPIO devices with SRCU
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We're working towards removing the "multi-function" GPIO spinlock that's
implemented terribly wrong. We tried using an RW-semaphore to protect
the list of GPIO devices but it turned out that we still have old code
using legacy GPIO calls that need to translate the global GPIO number to
the address of the associated descriptor and - to that end - traverse
the list while holding the lock. If we change the spinlock to a sleeping
lock then we'll end up with "scheduling while atomic" bugs.

Let's allow lockless traversal of the list using SRCU and only use the
mutex when modyfing the list.

While at it: let's protect the period between when we start the lookup
and when we finally request the descriptor (increasing the reference
count of the GPIO device) with the SRCU read lock.

Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
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Bartosz Golaszewski committed Feb 12, 2024
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