Removing this assertion lets us move the kref_put() call outside the
prepare_lock section. We don't need to hold the prepare_lock here to
free memory and destroy the clk_core structure. We've already unlinked
the clk from the clk tree and by the time the release function runs
nothing holds a reference to the clk_core anymore so anything with the
pointer can't access the memory that's being freed anyway. Way back in
commit 496eadf821c2 ("clk: Use lockdep asserts to find missing hold of
prepare_lock") we didn't need to have this assertion either.
Fixes: 496eadf821c2 ("clk: Use lockdep asserts to find missing hold of prepare_lock")
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Cc: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
---
drivers/clk/clk.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk.c b/drivers/clk/clk.c
index 2253c154a824..44e71736477d 100644
--- a/drivers/clk/clk.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/clk.c
@@ -4353,8 +4353,6 @@ static void __clk_release(struct kref *ref)
{
struct clk_core *core = container_of(ref, struct clk_core, ref);
- lockdep_assert_held(&prepare_lock);
-
clk_core_free_parent_map(core);
kfree_const(core->name);
kfree(core);
--
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/clk/linux.git/
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sboyd/spmi.git