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SubjectRe: [PATCH] staging: vc04_services: replace g_free_fragments_mutex with spinlock
On Mon, 28 Oct 2019, Stefan Wahren wrote:

>Hi Davidlohr,
>
>Am 27.10.19 um 23:15 schrieb Davidlohr Bueso:
>> There seems no need to be using a semaphore, or a sleeping lock
>> in the first place: critical region is extremely short, does not
>> call into any blocking calls and furthermore lock and unlocking
>> operations occur in the same context.
>>
>> Get rid of another semaphore user by replacing it with a spinlock.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
>> ---
>> This is in an effort to further reduce semaphore users in the kernel.
>>
>thanks for this. Could please also send this to devel@driverdev.osuosl.org?

Ccing.

>
>I only need to know, has this been tested on the Raspberry Pi?

No testing has been done, I have no hardware to test this.

Thanks,
Davidlohr

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