linux-kernel - [PATCH 16/29] staging: bcm2835-audio: Drop superfluous mutex lock during prepare

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Date:   Tue,  4 Sep 2018 17:58:45 +0200
From:   Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>,
        Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@...e.com>,
        linux-rpi-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 16/29] staging: bcm2835-audio: Drop superfluous mutex lock during prepare

The chip->audio_mutex is used basically for protecting the opened
stream assignment, and the prepare callback is irrelevant with it.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
---
 drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-pcm.c | 8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-pcm.c b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-pcm.c
index 1f9c940f1cc3..9659c25b9f9d 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-pcm.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-pcm.c
@@ -218,8 +218,6 @@ static int snd_bcm2835_pcm_prepare(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream)
 	int channels;
 	int err;
 
-	mutex_lock(&chip->audio_mutex);
-
 	/* notify the vchiq that it should enter spdif passthrough mode by
 	 * setting channels=0 (see
 	 * https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/528)
@@ -233,7 +231,7 @@ static int snd_bcm2835_pcm_prepare(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream)
 				       runtime->rate,
 				       snd_pcm_format_width(runtime->format));
 	if (err < 0)
-		goto out;
+		return err;
 
 	memset(&alsa_stream->pcm_indirect, 0, sizeof(alsa_stream->pcm_indirect));
 
@@ -246,9 +244,7 @@ static int snd_bcm2835_pcm_prepare(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream)
 	alsa_stream->pos = 0;
 	alsa_stream->draining = false;
 
- out:
-	mutex_unlock(&chip->audio_mutex);
-	return err;
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static void snd_bcm2835_pcm_transfer(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
-- 
2.18.0