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

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On 11 February 2016 at 14:14, Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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?

No looks good to me
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