gpiolib: better rmmod infrastructure

As long as one or more GPIOs on a gpio chip are used its driver should not be
unloaded.  The existing mechanism (gpiochip_remove failure) doesn't address
that, since rmmod can no longer be made to fail by having the cleanup code
report errors.  Module usecounts are the solution.

Assuming standard "initialize struct to zero" policies, this change won't
affect SOC platform drivers.  However, drivers for external chips (on I2C and
SPI busses) should be updated if they can be built as modules.

Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@pengutronix.de>
[ gpio_ensure_requested() needs to update module usecounts too ]
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
index d8db2f8ee41..eb75d12e83b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
@@ -68,6 +68,9 @@ static void gpio_ensure_requested(struct gpio_desc *desc)
 	if (test_and_set_bit(FLAG_REQUESTED, &desc->flags) == 0) {
 		pr_warning("GPIO-%d autorequested\n", (int)(desc - gpio_desc));
 		desc_set_label(desc, "[auto]");
+		if (!try_module_get(desc->chip->owner))
+			pr_err("GPIO-%d: module can't be gotten \n",
+					(int)(desc - gpio_desc));
 	}
 }
 
@@ -177,6 +180,9 @@ int gpio_request(unsigned gpio, const char *label)
 	if (desc->chip == NULL)
 		goto done;
 
+	if (!try_module_get(desc->chip->owner))
+		goto done;
+
 	/* NOTE:  gpio_request() can be called in early boot,
 	 * before IRQs are enabled.
 	 */
@@ -184,8 +190,10 @@ int gpio_request(unsigned gpio, const char *label)
 	if (test_and_set_bit(FLAG_REQUESTED, &desc->flags) == 0) {
 		desc_set_label(desc, label ? : "?");
 		status = 0;
-	} else
+	} else {
 		status = -EBUSY;
+		module_put(desc->chip->owner);
+	}
 
 done:
 	if (status)
@@ -209,9 +217,10 @@ void gpio_free(unsigned gpio)
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&gpio_lock, flags);
 
 	desc = &gpio_desc[gpio];
-	if (desc->chip && test_and_clear_bit(FLAG_REQUESTED, &desc->flags))
+	if (desc->chip && test_and_clear_bit(FLAG_REQUESTED, &desc->flags)) {
 		desc_set_label(desc, NULL);
-	else
+		module_put(desc->chip->owner);
+	} else
 		WARN_ON(extra_checks);
 
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&gpio_lock, flags);