Re: [PATCH] device property: Make modifications of fwnode "flags" thread safe

[Wolfram Sang]

> > What's the alignment for the u8 member in your SoC? 4 bytes or 8 bytes?
> > (I assume it's 64-bit SoC.)
> 
> FWIW, with the given change it will be still inside 64-byte data structure
> which most likely occupies a single cache line (before this patch and after
> as well).

I consider this directon of the discussion irrelevant. If the number is
(maybe? That's to be discussed!) needlessly bigger than 0, then it
doesn't matter how big the number is.

Why don't you like the idea of taking the lock?