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    efi: Don't use spinlocks for efi vars · 21b3ddd3
    Sylvain Chouleur authored
    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: default avatarSylvain Chouleur <sylvain.chouleur@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArd 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: default avatarMatt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
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