[PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: replace spinlocks w mutexes

Replace spinlocks guarding gpio config ops with mutexes.  This is a me-too
patch, and is justifiable insofar as mutexes have stricter semantics and
better debugging support, so are preferred where they are applicable.

Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/scx200.c b/arch/i386/kernel/scx200.c
index edead73ebef2..9bf590cefc7d 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/scx200.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/scx200.c
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 #include <linux/errno.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/mutex.h>
 #include <linux/pci.h>
 
 #include <linux/scx200.h>
@@ -45,7 +46,7 @@ static struct pci_driver scx200_pci_driver = {
 	.probe = scx200_probe,
 };
 
-static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(scx200_gpio_config_lock);
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(scx200_gpio_config_lock);
 
 static void __devinit scx200_init_shadow(void)
 {
@@ -95,9 +96,8 @@ static int __devinit scx200_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_
 u32 scx200_gpio_configure(unsigned index, u32 mask, u32 bits)
 {
 	u32 config, new_config;
-	unsigned long flags;
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&scx200_gpio_config_lock, flags);
+	mutex_lock(&scx200_gpio_config_lock);
 
 	outl(index, scx200_gpio_base + 0x20);
 	config = inl(scx200_gpio_base + 0x24);
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ u32 scx200_gpio_configure(unsigned index, u32 mask, u32 bits)
 	new_config = (config & mask) | bits;
 	outl(new_config, scx200_gpio_base + 0x24);
 
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&scx200_gpio_config_lock, flags);
+	mutex_unlock(&scx200_gpio_config_lock);
 
 	return config;
 }