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Commit f173747f authored by Martin Blumenstingl's avatar Martin Blumenstingl Committed by Thierry Reding
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pwm: meson: Use the spin-lock only to protect register modifications

Holding the spin-lock for all of the code in meson_pwm_apply() can
result in a "BUG: scheduling while atomic". This can happen because
clk_get_rate() (which is called from meson_pwm_calc()) may sleep.
Only hold the spin-lock when modifying registers to solve this.

The reason why we need a spin-lock in the driver is because the
REG_MISC_AB register is shared between the two channels provided by one
PWM controller. The only functions where REG_MISC_AB is modified are
meson_pwm_enable() and meson_pwm_disable() so the register reads/writes
in there need to be protected by the spin-lock.

The original code also used the spin-lock to protect the values in
struct meson_pwm_channel. This could be necessary if two consumers can
use the same PWM channel. However, PWM core doesn't allow this so we
don't need to protect the values in struct meson_pwm_channel with a
lock.

Fixes: 211ed630

 ("pwm: Add support for Meson PWM Controller")
Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNeil Armstrong <narmstrong@baylibre.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
parent a2793458
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