• Hans Verkuil's avatar
    V4L/DVB: v4l2: add core serialization lock · ee6869af
    Hans Verkuil authored
    Drivers can optionally set a pointer to a mutex in struct video_device.
    The core will use that to lock before calling open, read, write, unlocked_ioctl,
    poll, mmap or release.
    
    Updated the documentation as well and ensure that v4l2-event knows about the
    lock: it will unlock it before doing a blocking wait on an event and relock it
    afterwards.
    
    Ensure that the 'video_is_registered' check is done when the lock is held:
    a typical disconnect will take the lock as well before unregistering the
    device nodes, so to prevent race conditions the video_is_registered check
    should also be done with the lock held.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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