Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] efi: use a file local lock for efivars

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On Wed, 13 Jan, at 05:32:40PM, Sylvain Chouleur wrote:
> From: Sylvain Chouleur <sylvain.chouleur@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This patch remove the efivars lock to use a single lock for the whole
> vars.c file.  The goal of this lock is to protect concurrent calls to
> efi variable services, registering and unregistering.  This allows to
> register new efivars operations without having in-progress call.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sylvain Chouleur <sylvain.chouleur@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c | 85 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>  include/linux/efi.h         |  6 ----
>  2 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)

Sorry for the delay in reviewing this. I wasn't on Cc so I only found
it when searching through the linux-efi archive.

This change looks fine to me and a nice clean up. Ard any comments?
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