regulator: core: introduce function to lock regulators and its supplies
Each regulator_dev is locked with its own mutex. This is fine as long as only one regulator_dev is locked, but makes lockdep unhappy when we have to walk up the supply chain like it can happen in regulator_get_voltage: regulator_get_voltage -> mutex_lock(®ulator->rdev->mutex) -> _regulator_get_voltage(regulator->rdev) -> regulator_get_voltage(rdev->supply) -> mutex_lock(®ulator->rdev->mutex); This causes lockdep to issue a possible deadlock warning. There are at least two ways to work around this: - We can always lock the whole supply chain using the functions introduced with this patch. - We could store the current voltage in struct regulator_rdev so that we do not have to walk up the supply chain for the _regulator_get_voltage case. Anyway, regulator_lock_supply/regulator_unlock_supply will be needed once we allow regulator_set_voltage to optimize the supply voltages. Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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