linux/include
Ard Biesheuvel dce48e351c efi: Replace runtime services spinlock with semaphore
The purpose of the efi_runtime_lock is to prevent concurrent calls into
the firmware. There is no need to use spinlocks here, as long as we ensure
that runtime service invocations from an atomic context (i.e., EFI pstore)
cannot block.

So use a semaphore instead, and use down_trylock() in the nonblocking case.
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: Ard 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: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
2016-09-09 16:08:43 +01:00
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acpi treewide: replace obsolete _refok by __ref 2016-08-02 17:31:41 -04:00
asm-generic mm/usercopy: get rid of CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS 2016-08-30 10:10:21 -07:00
clocksource
crypto A number of improvements for the /dev/random driver; the most 2016-07-27 15:11:55 -07:00
drm Merge branch 'drm-next-4.8' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux into drm-next 2016-08-08 16:45:33 +10:00
dt-bindings ARM: DT updates for v4.8 2016-08-01 18:37:45 -04:00
keys
kvm KVM/ARM Changes for v4.8 - Take 2 2016-08-04 13:59:56 +02:00
linux efi: Replace runtime services spinlock with semaphore 2016-09-09 16:08:43 +01:00
math-emu
media dma-mapping: use unsigned long for dma_attrs 2016-08-04 08:50:07 -04:00
memory
misc
net tcp: fix use after free in tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue() 2016-08-18 23:22:57 -07:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma IB/core: Use memdup_user() rather than duplicating its implementation 2016-08-23 12:40:13 -04:00
rxrpc
scsi Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending 2016-08-04 20:04:37 -04:00
soc ARM: SoC driver updates for v4.8 2016-08-01 18:36:01 -04:00
sound Merge tag 'drm-for-v4.8' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux 2016-08-01 21:44:08 -04:00
target target: Fix ordered task CHECK_CONDITION early exception handling 2016-07-20 00:58:40 -07:00
trace Luiz Capitulino noticed that the tick_stop tracepoint wasn't being parsed 2016-08-09 10:34:09 -07:00
uapi include/uapi/linux/ipx.h: fix conflicting defitions with glibc netipx/ipx.h 2016-08-22 16:25:15 -07:00
video
xen xen: change the type of xen_vcpu_id to uint32_t 2016-08-24 18:17:27 +01:00
Kbuild