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Davidlohr Bueso
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The parallel port restore operation currently defers writes to a tasklet, if it sees a locked disconnect mutex. The driver goes to a lot of trouble to ensure writes happen in a non-blocking context, but things can be greatly simplified if it's done in regular process context and this is not a system performance critical path. As such, instead of doing the state restore writes in softirq context, use a workqueue and just do regular synchronous writes. In addition to the cleanup, this also imposes less on the overall system as tasklets have been deprecated because of it's softirq implications, potentially blocking a higher priority task from running. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201120045300.28804-1-dave@stgolabs.net [johan: amend commit message ("softirq context")] Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
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