[PATCH 3/3] video: fbdev: amba-clcd: Always use msleep() for waiting

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy at linutronix.de
Mon Feb 8 22:38:10 UTC 2021


The driver uses in_atomic() to distinguish between mdelay() and msleep().

The usage of in_interrupt() in drivers is phased out and Linus clearly
requested that code which changes behaviour depending on context should
either be separated or the context be conveyed in an argument passed by the
caller, which usually knows the context.

I traced the usage of in_interrupt() back to its initial merge:
    bfe694f833643 ("[ARM] Add ARM AMBA CLCD framebuffer driver.")
    https://git.kernel.org/history/history/c/bfe694f833643

The driver has been removed and added back in the meantime.
I've been looking for the IRQ context as described in the comment and
couldn't find it. The functions calling clcdfb_sleep() also call
conditionally backlight_update_status() which acquires a mutex. If it is
okay to acquire a mutex then it is okay to use msleep() since both
functions must be used in preemptible context.

Replace clcdfb_sleep() with msleep().

Cc: Peter Collingbourne <pcc at google.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux at armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy at linutronix.de>
---
 drivers/video/fbdev/amba-clcd.c | 17 ++---------------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/amba-clcd.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/amba-clcd.c
index 33595cc4778e9..9ec969e136bfd 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/amba-clcd.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/amba-clcd.c
@@ -35,19 +35,6 @@
 /* This is limited to 16 characters when displayed by X startup */
 static const char *clcd_name = "CLCD FB";
 
-/*
- * Unfortunately, the enable/disable functions may be called either from
- * process or IRQ context, and we _need_ to delay.  This is _not_ good.
- */
-static inline void clcdfb_sleep(unsigned int ms)
-{
-	if (in_atomic()) {
-		mdelay(ms);
-	} else {
-		msleep(ms);
-	}
-}
-
 static inline void clcdfb_set_start(struct clcd_fb *fb)
 {
 	unsigned long ustart = fb->fb.fix.smem_start;
@@ -77,7 +64,7 @@ static void clcdfb_disable(struct clcd_fb *fb)
 		val &= ~CNTL_LCDPWR;
 		writel(val, fb->regs + fb->off_cntl);
 
-		clcdfb_sleep(20);
+		msleep(20);
 	}
 	if (val & CNTL_LCDEN) {
 		val &= ~CNTL_LCDEN;
@@ -109,7 +96,7 @@ static void clcdfb_enable(struct clcd_fb *fb, u32 cntl)
 	cntl |= CNTL_LCDEN;
 	writel(cntl, fb->regs + fb->off_cntl);
 
-	clcdfb_sleep(20);
+	msleep(20);
 
 	/*
 	 * and now apply power.
-- 
2.30.0



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