Re: [PATCH v2 11/20] rpmsg: glink: Fix idr_lock from mutex to spinlock

[Chris Lew]

Hi Sricharan,

Minor bug in this patch.

On 8/24/2017 12:21 AM, Sricharan R wrote:
[..]
> @@ -829,11 +839,14 @@ static int qcom_glink_rx_open(struct qcom_glink *glink, unsigned int rcid,
>   	struct device_node *node;
>   	int lcid;
>   	int ret;
> +	unsigned long flags;
>   
> +	spin_lock_irqsave(&glink->idr_lock, flags);
>   	idr_for_each_entry(&glink->lcids, channel, lcid) {
>   		if (!strcmp(channel->name, name))
>   			break;
>   	}
> +	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&glink->idr_lock, flags);
>   
>   	if (!channel) {
>   		channel = qcom_glink_alloc_channel(glink, name);
> @@ -844,15 +857,15 @@ static int qcom_glink_rx_open(struct qcom_glink *glink, unsigned int rcid,
>   		create_device = true;
>   	}
>   
> -	mutex_lock(&glink->idr_lock);
> +	spin_lock_irqsave(&glink->idr_lock, flags);
>   	ret = idr_alloc(&glink->rcids, channel, rcid, rcid + 1, GFP_KERNEL);

I think GFP_KERNEL should be changed to GFP_ATOMIC if the mutex is 
changed to spinlock.

Thanks,
Chris
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