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authorSven Van Asbroeck <TheSven73@gmail.com>2020-04-01 19:01:06 +0200
committerThierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>2020-04-03 21:41:42 +0200
commit9cc5f232a4b6a0ef6e9b57876d61b88f61bdd7c2 (patch)
treee2268d6c0398aa766890eed1e32994c11dc13694 /Documentation
parent374c1104eb72b9570a52360274c3edbbd0e89ed0 (diff)
pwm: pca9685: Fix PWM/GPIO inter-operation
This driver allows pwms to be requested as gpios via gpiolib. Obviously, it should not be allowed to request a GPIO when its corresponding PWM is already requested (and vice versa). So it requires some exclusion code. Given that the PWMm and GPIO cores are not synchronized with respect to each other, this exclusion code will also require proper synchronization. Such a mechanism was in place, but was inadvertently removed by Uwe's clean-up in commit e926b12c611c ("pwm: Clear chip_data in pwm_put()"). Upon revisiting the synchronization mechanism, we found that theoretically, it could allow two threads to successfully request conflicting PWMs/GPIOs. Replace with a bitmap which tracks PWMs in-use, plus a mutex. As long as PWM and GPIO's respective request/free functions modify the in-use bitmap while holding the mutex, proper synchronization will be guaranteed. Reported-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com> Fixes: e926b12c611c ("pwm: Clear chip_data in pwm_put()") Cc: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> Cc: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Cc: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com> Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/31/963 Signed-off-by: Sven Van Asbroeck <TheSven73@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> [cg: Tested on an i.MX6Q board with two NXP PCA9685 chips] Tested-by: Clemens Gruber <clemens.gruber@pqgruber.com> Reviewed-by: Sven Van Asbroeck <TheSven73@gmail.com> # cg's rebase Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200330160238.GD2817345@ulmo/ Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
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