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authorJim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>2006-06-27 02:54:25 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-06-27 17:32:43 -0700
commit8bcf6135c3e8cdfab375f4041a48721483519eee (patch)
tree06658c8beb4a8e0e3808ca962fced3166a0eb22b /arch/i386/kernel/scx200.c
parent6cad56fd884b7eb85ae193c94b688fe76680fcbf (diff)
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[PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: replace spinlocks w mutexes
Replace spinlocks guarding gpio config ops with mutexes. This is a me-too patch, and is justifiable insofar as mutexes have stricter semantics and better debugging support, so are preferred where they are applicable. Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386/kernel/scx200.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/kernel/scx200.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/scx200.c b/arch/i386/kernel/scx200.c
index edead73ebef2..9bf590cefc7d 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/scx200.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/scx200.c
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
#include <linux/errno.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/pci.h>
#include <linux/scx200.h>
@@ -45,7 +46,7 @@ static struct pci_driver scx200_pci_driver = {
.probe = scx200_probe,
};
-static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(scx200_gpio_config_lock);
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(scx200_gpio_config_lock);
static void __devinit scx200_init_shadow(void)
{
@@ -95,9 +96,8 @@ static int __devinit scx200_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_
u32 scx200_gpio_configure(unsigned index, u32 mask, u32 bits)
{
u32 config, new_config;
- unsigned long flags;
- spin_lock_irqsave(&scx200_gpio_config_lock, flags);
+ mutex_lock(&scx200_gpio_config_lock);
outl(index, scx200_gpio_base + 0x20);
config = inl(scx200_gpio_base + 0x24);
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ u32 scx200_gpio_configure(unsigned index, u32 mask, u32 bits)
new_config = (config & mask) | bits;
outl(new_config, scx200_gpio_base + 0x24);
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&scx200_gpio_config_lock, flags);
+ mutex_unlock(&scx200_gpio_config_lock);
return config;
}