linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] Staging: iio: ade7758: Remove iio

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Message-Id: <88eba335f73f931acb1e5d1be63992f8ae0fdc5b.1517845616.git.shreeya.patel23498@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue,  6 Feb 2018 01:08:47 +0530
From:   Shreeya Patel <shreeya.patel23498@...il.com>
To:     lars@...afoo.de, Michael.Hennerich@...log.com, jic23@...nel.org,
        knaack.h@....de, pmeerw@...erw.net, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        linux-iio@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Shreeya Patel <shreeya.patel23498@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Staging: iio: ade7758: Remove iio_dev mlock

In the ade7758 file, read raw does not require iio_dev->mlock for
reads. It can run concurrently as resource protection is handled
by buf_lock in read register.

Signed-off-by: Shreeya Patel <shreeya.patel23498@...il.com>
---
 drivers/staging/iio/meter/ade7758_core.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/meter/ade7758_core.c b/drivers/staging/iio/meter/ade7758_core.c
index 7b7ffe5..227dbfc 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/iio/meter/ade7758_core.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/iio/meter/ade7758_core.c
@@ -526,9 +526,7 @@ static int ade7758_read_raw(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,
 
 	switch (mask) {
 	case IIO_CHAN_INFO_SAMP_FREQ:
-		mutex_lock(&indio_dev->mlock);
 		ret = ade7758_read_samp_freq(&indio_dev->dev, val);
-		mutex_unlock(&indio_dev->mlock);
 		return ret;
 	default:
 		return -EINVAL;
-- 
2.7.4