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SubjectRe: [PATCH] eeprom: at24: don't use the default regmap locking
2017-12-03 22:47 GMT+01:00 Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>:
> We need to always wait for the last write to complete and we want the
> regmap to be protected from concurrent access during that wait. That
> makes using the regmap's default locking impossible and we're
> protecting it with an external mutex.
>
> Set an empty function as the callback for regmap's lock and unlock
> routines so that it doesn't allocate any internal resources for
> unnecessary locking.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
> ---
> This is a temporary solution - I'm working on a patch extending the
> regmap framework with locking policy options, which will allow users
> to manually lock & unlock regmaps if needed or disable locking at all.
>
> drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c | 9 +++++++++
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c b/drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c
> index 625b00166117..34bc394a9c14 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c
> +++ b/drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c
> @@ -498,14 +498,23 @@ static unsigned int at24_get_offset_adj(u8 flags, unsigned int byte_len)
> }
> }
>
> +static void at24_regmap_lock_unlock_none(void *map)
> +{
> +
> +}
> +
> static const struct regmap_config regmap_config_8 = {
> .reg_bits = 8,
> .val_bits = 8,
> + .lock = at24_regmap_lock_unlock_none,
> + .unlock = at24_regmap_lock_unlock_none,
> };
>
> static const struct regmap_config regmap_config_16 = {
> .reg_bits = 16,
> .val_bits = 8,
> + .lock = at24_regmap_lock_unlock_none,
> + .unlock = at24_regmap_lock_unlock_none,
> };
>
> static int at24_probe(struct i2c_client *client, const struct i2c_device_id *id)
> --
> 2.15.1
>

There were no comments. I applied this patch. These changes will be
removed in 4.17 when we'll enable the newly added disable_locking
variable in regmap config.

Bartosz

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