On 05/07/2015 09:27 PM, Doug Anderson wrote:
Right now the dw_wdt uses a spinlock to protect dw_wdt_open().  The
problem is that while holding the spinlock we call:
-> dw_wdt_set_top()
    -> dw_wdt_top_in_seconds()
       -> clk_get_rate()
          -> clk_prepare_lock()
             -> mutex_lock()

Locking a mutex while holding a spinlock is not allowed and leads to
warnings like "BUG: spinlock wrong CPU on CPU#1", among other
problems.

There's no reason to use a spinlock.  Only dw_wdt_open() was protected
and the test_and_set_bit() at the start of that function protects us
anyway.

Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <diand...@chromium.org>

Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <li...@roeck-us.net>

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