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| author | Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com> | 2010-05-05 15:33:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Hiroshi DOYU <Hiroshi.DOYU@nokia.com> | 2010-08-04 15:50:16 +0300 |
| commit | 10d1a0028dc4549bd8e887641cc283f5f184f819 (patch) | |
| tree | f1f999dbc1bc46c92307d262bc9eb18accf85470 /arch/arm/plat-omap/mailbox.c | |
| parent | 1ea5d6d18bf1d528ae1081b9176d69c00bd51fa2 (diff) | |
| download | linux-10d1a0028dc4549bd8e887641cc283f5f184f819.tar.bz2 | |
omap: mailbox: convert rwlocks to spinlock
rwlocks are slower and have potential starvation issues
therefore spinlocks are generally preferred.
see also: http://lwn.net/Articles/364583/
Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Kanigeri Hari <h-kanigeri2@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Hiroshi DOYU <Hiroshi.DOYU@nokia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/plat-omap/mailbox.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/plat-omap/mailbox.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/plat-omap/mailbox.c b/arch/arm/plat-omap/mailbox.c index c3402165488d..fafe47bf2f55 100644 --- a/arch/arm/plat-omap/mailbox.c +++ b/arch/arm/plat-omap/mailbox.c @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ static struct workqueue_struct *mboxd; static struct omap_mbox *mboxes; -static DEFINE_RWLOCK(mboxes_lock); +static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(mboxes_lock); static bool rq_full; static int mbox_configured; @@ -341,14 +341,14 @@ struct omap_mbox *omap_mbox_get(const char *name) struct omap_mbox *mbox; int ret; - read_lock(&mboxes_lock); + spin_lock(&mboxes_lock); mbox = *(find_mboxes(name)); if (mbox == NULL) { - read_unlock(&mboxes_lock); + spin_unlock(&mboxes_lock); return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT); } - read_unlock(&mboxes_lock); + spin_unlock(&mboxes_lock); ret = omap_mbox_startup(mbox); if (ret) @@ -374,15 +374,15 @@ int omap_mbox_register(struct device *parent, struct omap_mbox *mbox) if (mbox->next) return -EBUSY; - write_lock(&mboxes_lock); + spin_lock(&mboxes_lock); tmp = find_mboxes(mbox->name); if (*tmp) { ret = -EBUSY; - write_unlock(&mboxes_lock); + spin_unlock(&mboxes_lock); goto err_find; } *tmp = mbox; - write_unlock(&mboxes_lock); + spin_unlock(&mboxes_lock); return 0; @@ -395,18 +395,18 @@ int omap_mbox_unregister(struct omap_mbox *mbox) { struct omap_mbox **tmp; - write_lock(&mboxes_lock); + spin_lock(&mboxes_lock); tmp = &mboxes; while (*tmp) { if (mbox == *tmp) { *tmp = mbox->next; mbox->next = NULL; - write_unlock(&mboxes_lock); + spin_unlock(&mboxes_lock); return 0; } tmp = &(*tmp)->next; } - write_unlock(&mboxes_lock); + spin_unlock(&mboxes_lock); return -EINVAL; } |