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We use a notifier to implement the mechanism of informing the user-space about changes in GPIO line status. We register with the notifier when the GPIO character device file is opened and unregister when the last reference to the associated file descriptor is dropped. Since commitfcc8b637c5("gpiolib: switch the line state notifier to atomic") we use the atomic notifier variant. Atomic notifiers call rcu_synchronize in atomic_notifier_chain_unregister() which caused a significant performance regression in some circumstances, observed by user-space when calling close() on the GPIO device file descriptor. Replace the atomic notifier with the raw variant and provide synchronization with a read-write spinlock. Fixes:fcc8b637c5("gpiolib: switch the line state notifier to atomic") Reported-by: David Jander <david@protonic.nl> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250311110034.53959031@erd003.prtnl/ Tested-by: David Jander <david@protonic.nl> Tested-by: Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250311-gpiolib-line-state-raw-notifier-v2-1-138374581e1e@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
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