Re: [PATCH -next] pwm: pca9685: Remove set but not used variable 'pwm'

[Uwe Kleine-König]

Hello Sven,

On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 09:03:09AM -0400, Sven Van Asbroeck wrote:
> Hi YueHaibing,
> 
> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 11:49 PM YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >         mutex_lock(&pca->lock);
> > -       pwm = &pca->chip.pwms[offset];
> >         mutex_unlock(&pca->lock);
> 
> Thanks for noticing this issue. However it should be fixed differently.
> 
> This was introduced by Uwe's clean-up patch:
> commit e926b12c611c2095c79 ("pwm: Clear chip_data in pwm_put()")
> 
> But Uwe did not realize that in this case, the pwm chip_data is used as a
> synchronization mechanism between pwm and gpio. Moving the chip_data
> clear out of the mutex breaks this mechanism.

> 
> I think the following would restore the mechanism:
> 
> >         mutex_lock(&pca->lock);
> >        pwm = &pca->chip.pwms[offset];
> > +     pwm_set_chip_data(pwm, NULL);
> >         mutex_unlock(&pca->lock);

I didn't look into the driver to try to understand that, but the
definitely needs a comment to explain for the next person to think they
can do a cleanup here.

Best regards
Uwe

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