linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] gpiolib: cdev: relocate debounce_period_us from struct gpio

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Date:   Thu, 14 Dec 2023 22:45:17 +0800
From:   Kent Gibson <warthog618@...il.com>
To:     Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org,
        linus.walleij@...aro.org, andy@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] gpiolib: cdev: relocate debounce_period_us from
 struct gpio_desc

On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 03:29:28PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 10:58 AM Kent Gibson <warthog618@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > +/*
> > + * Used to populate gpio_v2_line_info with cdev specific fields not contained
> > + * in the struct gpio_desc.
> > + * A line is determined to contain supplemental information by
> > + * line_is_supplemental().
> > + */
> > +static struct {
> > +       /* a rbtree of the struct lines containing the supplemental info */
> > +       struct rb_root tree;
> > +       /* covers tree */
> > +       spinlock_t lock;
>
> Looks like this is never taken from atomic context? Can this be a mutex instead?
>

Correct, only from thread context.

Can be a mutex, but it only covers tree lookups which should be quick
as the tree is kept minimal, and I wouldn't expect it to ever get to the
mutex slowpath, so a spinlock seemed more appropriate.

Cheers,
Kent.