Commit 1f2bcb8c8ccd ("gpio: protect the descriptor label with SRCU") caused a massive drop in performance of requesting GPIO lines due to the call to synchronize_srcu() on each label change. Rework the code to not wait until all read-only users are done with reading the label but instead atomically replace the label pointer and schedule its release after all read-only critical sections are done. To that end wrap the descriptor label in a struct that also contains the rcu_head struct required for deferring tasks using call_srcu() and stop using kstrdup_const() as we're required to allocate memory anyway. Just allocate enough for the label string and rcu_head in one go. Reported-by: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-gpio/CAMRc=Mfig2oooDQYTqo23W3PXSdzhVO4p=G4+P8y1ppBOrkrJQ@mail.gmail.com/ Fixes: 1f2bcb8c8ccd ("gpio: protect the descriptor label with SRCU") Suggested-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Tested-by: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org> # on SM8650-QRD Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240507121346.16969-1-brgl@bgdev.pl Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
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