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From: j.anaszewski@samsung•com (Jacek Anaszewski)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [RESEND PATCH 3/4] leds: leds-ns2: handle can_sleep GPIOs
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 16:18:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <558ABC35.1010801@samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1434640650-28086-4-git-send-email-simon.guinot@sequanux.org>

On 06/18/2015 05:17 PM, Simon Guinot wrote:
> On the board n090401 (Seagate NAS 4-Bay), some of the LEDs are handled
> by the leds-ns2 driver. This LEDs are connected to an I2C GPIO expander
> (PCA95554PW) which means that GPIO access may sleep. This patch makes
> leds-ns2 compatible with such GPIOs by using the *_cansleep() variant of
> the GPIO functions. As a drawback this functions can't be used safely in
> a timer context (with the timer LED trigger for example). To fix this
> issue, a workqueue mechanism (copied from the leds-gpio driver) is used.
>
> Note that this patch also updates slightly the ns2_led_sata_store
> function. The LED state is now retrieved from cached values instead of
> reading the GPIOs previously. This prevents ns2_led_sata_store from
> working with a stale LED state (which may happen when a delayed work
> is pending).
>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Guinot <simon.guinot@sequanux•org>
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@gmail•com>
> ---
>   drivers/leds/leds-ns2.c | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>   1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>

>
> +static void ns2_led_work(struct work_struct *work)
> +{
> +	struct ns2_led_data *led_dat =
> +		container_of(work, struct ns2_led_data, work);
> +	int i = led_dat->new_mode_index;
> +
> +	write_lock(&led_dat->rw_lock);
> +
> +	gpio_set_value_cansleep(led_dat->cmd, led_dat->modval[i].cmd_level);
> +	gpio_set_value_cansleep(led_dat->slow, led_dat->modval[i].slow_level);
> +
> +	write_unlock(&led_dat->rw_lock);
> +}
> +

I've just realized that this can break one of the basic rules:
no sleeping should occur while holding a spinlock. Did you
consider this?

-- 
Best Regards,
Jacek Anaszewski

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-06-24 14:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-18 15:17 [RESEND PATCH 0/4] Allow to use leds-ns2 with n090401 boards Simon Guinot
2015-06-18 15:17 ` [RESEND PATCH 1/4] leds: leds-ns2: move LED modes mapping outside of the driver Simon Guinot
2015-06-22 14:32   ` Jacek Anaszewski
2015-06-23 18:12     ` Simon Guinot
2015-06-24  7:34       ` Jacek Anaszewski
2015-06-18 15:17 ` [RESEND PATCH 2/4] ARM: Kirkwood: add modes-map property to ns2-leds nodes Simon Guinot
2015-06-18 15:17 ` [RESEND PATCH 3/4] leds: leds-ns2: handle can_sleep GPIOs Simon Guinot
2015-06-22 14:33   ` Jacek Anaszewski
2015-06-24 14:18   ` Jacek Anaszewski [this message]
2015-06-26 17:10     ` Simon Guinot
2015-06-29 14:25       ` Jacek Anaszewski
2015-06-29 14:41         ` Simon Guinot
2015-06-18 15:17 ` [RESEND PATCH 4/4] leds: leds-ns2: depends on MACH_ARMADA_370 Simon Guinot
2015-06-22 14:33   ` Jacek Anaszewski

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