Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] clk: Don't hold prepare_lock when calling kref_put()

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Sun Apr 07 2024 - 22:36:12 EST


Quoting Stephen Boyd (2024-03-25 11:41:56)
> We don't need to hold the prepare_lock when dropping a ref on a struct
> clk_core. The release function is only freeing memory and any code with
> a pointer reference has already unlinked anything pointing to the
> clk_core. This reduces the holding area of the prepare_lock a bit.
>
> Note that we also don't call free_clk() with the prepare_lock held.
> There isn't any reason to do that.
>
> Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Applied to clk-fixes