Re: [PATCH 04/22] gpio: provide and use gpiod_get_label()

[Linus Walleij]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 1:48 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> We will soon serialize access to the descriptor label using SRCU. The
> write-side of the protection will require calling synchronize_srcu()
> which must not be called from atomic context. We have two irq helpers:
> gpiochip_lock_as_irq() and gpiochip_unlock_as_irq() that set the label
> if the GPIO is not requested but is being used as interrupt. They are
> called with a spinlock held from the interrupt subsystem.
>
> They must not do it if we are to use SRCU so instead let's move the
> special corner case to a dedicated getter.
>
> First: let's implement and use the getter where it's applicable.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>

After seeing the clever trick in the next patch I realized why
you do this.
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>

Yours,
Linus Walleij