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>
This commit is contained in:
Sylvain Chouleur
2016-07-15 21:36:30 +02:00
committed by Matt Fleming
parent 217b27d467
commit 21b3ddd39f
6 changed files with 139 additions and 76 deletions

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