hwspinlock/core: use a mutex to protect the radix tree
Since we're using non-atomic radix tree allocations, we
should be protecting the tree using a mutex and not a
spinlock.
Non-atomic allocations and process context locking is good enough,
as the tree is manipulated only when locks are registered/
unregistered/requested/freed.
The locks themselves are still protected by spinlocks of course,
and mutexes are not involved in the locking/unlocking paths.
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Juan Gutierrez <jgutierrez@ti.com>
[ohad@wizery.com: rewrite the commit log, #include mutex.h, add minor
commentary]
[ohad@wizery.com: update register/unregister parts in hwspinlock.txt]
Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
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