V4L/DVB: v4l2: add core serialization lock

Drivers can optionally set a pointer to a mutex in struct video_device.
The core will use that to lock before calling open, read, write, unlocked_ioctl,
poll, mmap or release.

Updated the documentation as well and ensure that v4l2-event knows about the
lock: it will unlock it before doing a blocking wait on an event and relock it
afterwards.

Ensure that the 'video_is_registered' check is done when the lock is held:
a typical disconnect will take the lock as well before unregistering the
device nodes, so to prevent race conditions the video_is_registered check
should also be done with the lock held.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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Hans Verkuil
2010-09-26 08:47:38 -03:00
committed by Mauro Carvalho Chehab
parent c29fcff3da
commit ee6869afc9
4 changed files with 89 additions and 19 deletions

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@ -94,6 +94,9 @@ struct video_device
/* ioctl callbacks */
const struct v4l2_ioctl_ops *ioctl_ops;
/* serialization lock */
struct mutex *lock;
};
/* dev to video-device */