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>
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@@ -105,7 +105,10 @@ static int efivarfs_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
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inode->i_private = var;
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efivar_entry_add(var, &efivarfs_list);
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err = efivar_entry_add(var, &efivarfs_list);
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if (err)
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goto out;
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d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
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dget(dentry);
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out:
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