Takashi Iwai
38ea4c3dc3
For a fast look-up of a control element via either numid or name matching (enabled via CONFIG_SND_CTL_FAST_LOOKUP), a locking isn't needed at all thanks to Xarray. OTOH, the locking is still needed for a slow linked-list traversal, and that's rather a rare case. In this patch, we reduce the use of locking at snd_ctl_find_*() API functions, and switch from controls_rwsem to controls_rwlock for avoiding unnecessary lock inversions. This also resulted in a nice cleanup, as *_unlocked() version of snd_ctl_find_*() APIs can be dropped. snd_ctl_find_id_mixer_unlocked() is still left just as an alias of snd_ctl_find_id_mixer(), since soc-card.c has a wrapper and there are several users. Once after converting there, we can remove it later. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240809104234.8488-3-tiwai@suse.de
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