Re: [PATCH] opp: Prepare for ->set_opp() helper to work without regulators

[Viresh Kumar]

On 20-01-21, 17:50, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> If OPP API was meant to be thread-safe, then the
> dev_pm_opp_unregister_set_opp_helper() should unset the
> opp_table->set_opp_data under the lock since it races with
> dev_pm_opp_set_regulators().

Right, I will fix that.

> Secondly, functions like dev_pm_opp_set_rate() don't have any locks at all.

It was on purpose. It is expected that this routine specially will
only have a single caller and calls will be in sequence. This gets
called a lot and we wanted to make it as much efficient as possible.

> It should be better not to add "random" locks into the code because it
> only creates an illusion for an oblivious API user that OPP API cares
> about thread safety, IMO.
> 
> Making OPP API thread-safe will take some effort and a careful review of
> every lock will be needed.

I agree, we have kept some part out of the lock intentionally, but
every other thing which can happen in parallel is well protected.
There maybe bugs, which I am not aware of.

Another reason you see less locks is because of the way I have used
the kref thing here. That allows us to take locks for very small
section of code and not big routines.

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viresh