ALSA: control: use counting semaphore as write lock for TLV write/command operations
In ALSA control interface, applications can execute three types of request for Type-Length-Value (TLV) data to a set of elements; read, write and command. In ALSA control core, all of the requests are handled within read lock to a counting semaphore, therefore several processes can run to access to the data at the same time for any purposes. This has an issue because write and command requests have side effect to change state of a set of elements for the TLV data. Concurrent access should be controlled for each of reference/change case. This commit uses the counting semaphore as read lock for TLV read requests, while use it as write lock for TLV write/command requests. The state of a set of elements for the TLV data is maintained exclusively between read requests and write/command requests, or between write and command requests. Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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