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Re: [PATCH v3 02/10] mtd: powernv_flash: Lock around concurrent access to OPAL

From: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Date: 2017-07-17 07:35:34

On Wed, 2017-07-12 at 14:22 +1000, Cyril Bur wrote:
OPAL can only manage one flash access at a time and will return an
OPAL_BUSY error for each concurrent access to the flash. The simplest
way to prevent this from happening is with a mutex.

Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <redacted>
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Should the mutex_lock() be mutex_lock_interruptible()? Are we OK waiting on
the mutex while other operations with the lock are busy?

Balbir Singh.
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