linux-stable/drivers
Sylvain Chouleur 21b3ddd39f efi: Don't use spinlocks for efi vars
All efivars operations are protected by a spinlock which prevents
interruptions and preemption. This is too restricted, we just need a
lock preventing concurrency.
The idea is to use a semaphore of count 1 and to have two ways of
locking, depending on the context:
- In interrupt context, we call down_trylock(), if it fails we return
  an error
- In normal context, we call down_interruptible()

We don't use a mutex here because the mutex_trylock() function must not
be called from interrupt context, whereas the down_trylock() can.

Signed-off-by: Sylvain Chouleur <sylvain.chouleur@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Sylvain Chouleur <sylvain.chouleur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
2016-09-09 16:08:42 +01:00
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