pwm: sifive: Always let the first pwm_apply_state succeed

Commit 2cfe9bbec56ea579135cdd92409fff371841904f added support for the
RGB and green PWM controlled LEDs on the HiFive Unmatched board
managed by the leds-pwm-multicolor and leds-pwm drivers respectively.
All three colours of the RGB LED and the green LED run from different
lines of the same PWM, but with the same period so this works fine when
the LED drivers are loaded one after the other.

Unfortunately it does expose a race in the PWM driver when both LED
drivers are loaded at roughly the same time. Here is an example:

  |          Thread A           |          Thread B           |
  |  led_pwm_mc_probe           |  led_pwm_probe              |
  |    devm_fwnode_pwm_get      |                             |
  |      pwm_sifive_request     |                             |
  |        ddata->user_count++  |                             |
  |                             |    devm_fwnode_pwm_get      |
  |                             |      pwm_sifive_request     |
  |                             |        ddata->user_count++  |
  |         ...                 |          ...                |
  |    pwm_state_apply          |    pwm_state_apply          |
  |      pwm_sifive_apply       |      pwm_sifive_apply       |

Now both calls to pwm_sifive_apply will see that ddata->approx_period,
initially 0, is different from the requested period and the clock needs
to be updated. But since ddata->user_count >= 2 both calls will fail
with -EBUSY, which will then cause both LED drivers to fail to probe.

Fix it by letting the first call to pwm_sifive_apply update the clock
even when ddata->user_count != 1.

Fixes: 9e37a53eb051 ("pwm: sifive: Add a driver for SiFive SoC PWM")
Signed-off-by: Emil Renner Berthing <emil.renner.berthing@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/pwm/pwm-sifive.c b/drivers/pwm/pwm-sifive.c
index 62b6acc6373d..393a4b97fc19 100644
--- a/drivers/pwm/pwm-sifive.c
+++ b/drivers/pwm/pwm-sifive.c
@@ -161,7 +161,13 @@ static int pwm_sifive_apply(struct pwm_chip *chip, struct pwm_device *pwm,
 
 	mutex_lock(&ddata->lock);
 	if (state->period != ddata->approx_period) {
-		if (ddata->user_count != 1) {
+		/*
+		 * Don't let a 2nd user change the period underneath the 1st user.
+		 * However if ddate->approx_period == 0 this is the first time we set
+		 * any period, so let whoever gets here first set the period so other
+		 * users who agree on the period won't fail.
+		 */
+		if (ddata->user_count != 1 && ddata->approx_period) {
 			mutex_unlock(&ddata->lock);
 			return -EBUSY;
 		}