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-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_core.c10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_core.c b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_core.c
index c65cf1e6f910..44bfa890e0e5 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_core.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_core.c
@@ -395,13 +395,21 @@ remote_event_create(wait_queue_head_t *wq, struct remote_event *event)
init_waitqueue_head(wq);
}
+/*
+ * All the event waiting routines in VCHIQ used a custom semaphore
+ * implementation that filtered most signals. This achieved a behaviour similar
+ * to the "killable" family of functions. While cleaning up this code all the
+ * routines where switched to the "interruptible" family of functions, as the
+ * former was deemed unjustified and the use "killable" set all VCHIQ's
+ * threads in D state.
+ */
static inline int
remote_event_wait(wait_queue_head_t *wq, struct remote_event *event)
{
if (!event->fired) {
event->armed = 1;
dsb(sy);
- if (wait_event_killable(*wq, event->fired)) {
+ if (wait_event_interruptible(*wq, event->fired)) {
event->armed = 0;
return 0;
}