Re: [PATCH] watchdog: mena21_wdt: Drop unnecessary mutex lock

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Tue May 08 2018 - 10:48:37 EST


On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 03:12:06PM +0800, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
> There is already a mutex in the watchdog core which serializes
> calls to the various API functions.
> So the mutex lock "drv->lock" is unnecessary and can be dropped.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> drivers/watchdog/mena21_wdt.c | 18 ------------------
> 1 file changed, 18 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/mena21_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/mena21_wdt.c
> index 25d5d2b8cfbe..0be7f50e8ff9 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/mena21_wdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/mena21_wdt.c
> @@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ enum a21_wdt_gpios {
>
> struct a21_wdt_drv {
> struct watchdog_device wdt;
> - struct mutex lock;
> unsigned gpios[NUM_GPIOS];
> };
>
> @@ -55,12 +54,8 @@ static int a21_wdt_start(struct watchdog_device *wdt)
> {
> struct a21_wdt_drv *drv = watchdog_get_drvdata(wdt);
>
> - mutex_lock(&drv->lock);
> -
> gpio_set_value(drv->gpios[GPIO_WD_ENAB], 1);
>
> - mutex_unlock(&drv->lock);
> -
> return 0;
> }
>
> @@ -68,12 +63,8 @@ static int a21_wdt_stop(struct watchdog_device *wdt)
> {
> struct a21_wdt_drv *drv = watchdog_get_drvdata(wdt);
>
> - mutex_lock(&drv->lock);
> -
> gpio_set_value(drv->gpios[GPIO_WD_ENAB], 0);
>
> - mutex_unlock(&drv->lock);
> -
> return 0;
> }
>
> @@ -81,14 +72,10 @@ static int a21_wdt_ping(struct watchdog_device *wdt)
> {
> struct a21_wdt_drv *drv = watchdog_get_drvdata(wdt);
>
> - mutex_lock(&drv->lock);
> -
> gpio_set_value(drv->gpios[GPIO_WD_TRIG], 0);
> ndelay(10);
> gpio_set_value(drv->gpios[GPIO_WD_TRIG], 1);
>
> - mutex_unlock(&drv->lock);
> -
> return 0;
> }
>
> @@ -108,8 +95,6 @@ static int a21_wdt_set_timeout(struct watchdog_device *wdt,
> return -EINVAL;
> }
>
> - mutex_lock(&drv->lock);
> -
> if (timeout == 1)
> gpio_set_value(drv->gpios[GPIO_WD_FAST], 1);
> else
> @@ -117,8 +102,6 @@ static int a21_wdt_set_timeout(struct watchdog_device *wdt,
>
> wdt->timeout = timeout;
>
> - mutex_unlock(&drv->lock);
> -
> return 0;
> }
>
> @@ -191,7 +174,6 @@ static int a21_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> return ret;
> }
>
> - mutex_init(&drv->lock);
> watchdog_init_timeout(&a21_wdt, 30, &pdev->dev);
> watchdog_set_nowayout(&a21_wdt, nowayout);
> watchdog_set_drvdata(&a21_wdt, drv);
> --
> 2.17.0
>
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