According to lib/idr.c,
   The IDA handles its own locking.  It is safe to call any of the IDA
   functions without synchronisation in your code.

so the 'chan_mutex' mutex can just be removed.
It is here only to protect some ida_alloc()/ida_free() calls.

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
---
Un-tested
---
 drivers/dma/dmaengine.c   | 7 -------
 include/linux/dmaengine.h | 1 -
 2 files changed, 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c b/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c
index 2cfa8458b51b..e80feeea0e01 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c
@@ -1053,9 +1053,7 @@ static int __dma_async_device_channel_register(struct dma_device *device,
 	 * When the chan_id is a negative value, we are dynamically adding
 	 * the channel. Otherwise we are static enumerating.
 	 */
-	mutex_lock(&device->chan_mutex);
 	chan->chan_id = ida_alloc(&device->chan_ida, GFP_KERNEL);
-	mutex_unlock(&device->chan_mutex);
 	if (chan->chan_id < 0) {
 		pr_err("%s: unable to alloc ida for chan: %d\n",
 		       __func__, chan->chan_id);
@@ -1078,9 +1076,7 @@ static int __dma_async_device_channel_register(struct dma_device *device,
 	return 0;
 
  err_out_ida:
-	mutex_lock(&device->chan_mutex);
 	ida_free(&device->chan_ida, chan->chan_id);
-	mutex_unlock(&device->chan_mutex);
  err_free_dev:
 	kfree(chan->dev);
  err_free_local:
@@ -1113,9 +1109,7 @@ static void __dma_async_device_channel_unregister(struct dma_device *device,
 	device->chancnt--;
 	chan->dev->chan = NULL;
 	mutex_unlock(&dma_list_mutex);
-	mutex_lock(&device->chan_mutex);
 	ida_free(&device->chan_ida, chan->chan_id);
-	mutex_unlock(&device->chan_mutex);
 	device_unregister(&chan->dev->device);
 	free_percpu(chan->local);
 }
@@ -1250,7 +1244,6 @@ int dma_async_device_register(struct dma_device *device)
 	if (rc != 0)
 		return rc;
 
-	mutex_init(&device->chan_mutex);
 	ida_init(&device->chan_ida);
 
 	/* represent channels in sysfs. Probably want devs too */
diff --git a/include/linux/dmaengine.h b/include/linux/dmaengine.h
index 842d4f7ca752..6db9e03afd0b 100644
--- a/include/linux/dmaengine.h
+++ b/include/linux/dmaengine.h
@@ -870,7 +870,6 @@ struct dma_device {
 	struct device *dev;
 	struct module *owner;
 	struct ida chan_ida;
-	struct mutex chan_mutex;	/* to protect chan_ida */
 
 	u32 src_addr_widths;
 	u32 dst_addr_widths;
-- 
2.32.0

On 06-02-22, 10:47, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> According to lib/idr.c,
>    The IDA handles its own locking.  It is safe to call any of the IDA
>    functions without synchronisation in your code.
> 
> so the 'chan_mutex' mutex can just be removed.
> It is here only to protect some ida_alloc()/ida_free() calls.

Applied, thanks

-- 
~Vinod