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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 20:20:35 +0100 From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@...oo.it> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>, user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 05/11] uml ubd driver: change ubd_lock to be a mutex From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@...oo.it> This lock protects ubd setup and teardown, so is only used in process context; beyond that, during such setup memory allocations must be performed and some generic functions which can sleep must be called (such as add_disk()). So the only correct solution is to make it a mutex instead of a spin_lock. No other change is done - this lock must be acquired in different places but it's done afterwards. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@...oo.it> --- arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c | 23 ++++++++++++----------- 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c b/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c index 23663b7..e4fd29a 100644 --- a/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c +++ b/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c @@ -107,7 +107,8 @@ static inline void ubd_set_bit(__u64 bit #define DRIVER_NAME "uml-blkdev" static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(ubd_io_lock); -static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(ubd_lock); + +static DEFINE_MUTEX(ubd_lock); static void (*do_ubd)(void); @@ -314,7 +315,7 @@ static int ubd_setup_common(char *str, i } err = 1; - spin_lock(&ubd_lock); + mutex_lock(&ubd_lock); if(fake_major != MAJOR_NR){ printk(KERN_ERR "Can't assign a fake major twice\n"); goto out1; @@ -326,7 +327,7 @@ static int ubd_setup_common(char *str, i major); err = 0; out1: - spin_unlock(&ubd_lock); + mutex_unlock(&ubd_lock); return(err); } @@ -343,7 +344,7 @@ static int ubd_setup_common(char *str, i } err = 1; - spin_lock(&ubd_lock); + mutex_lock(&ubd_lock); ubd_dev = &ubd_devs[n]; if(ubd_dev->file != NULL){ @@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ break_loop: ubd_dev->cow.file = backing_file; ubd_dev->boot_openflags = flags; out: - spin_unlock(&ubd_lock); + mutex_unlock(&ubd_lock); return(err); } @@ -716,11 +717,11 @@ static int ubd_config(char *str) } if(n == -1) return(0); - spin_lock(&ubd_lock); + mutex_lock(&ubd_lock); err = ubd_add(n); if(err) ubd_devs[n].file = NULL; - spin_unlock(&ubd_lock); + mutex_unlock(&ubd_lock); return(err); } @@ -737,7 +738,7 @@ static int ubd_get_config(char *name, ch } ubd_dev = &ubd_devs[n]; - spin_lock(&ubd_lock); + mutex_lock(&ubd_lock); if(ubd_dev->file == NULL){ CONFIG_CHUNK(str, size, len, "", 1); @@ -753,7 +754,7 @@ static int ubd_get_config(char *name, ch else CONFIG_CHUNK(str, size, len, "", 1); out: - spin_unlock(&ubd_lock); + mutex_unlock(&ubd_lock); return(len); } @@ -772,7 +773,7 @@ static int ubd_remove(int n) struct ubd *ubd_dev; int err = -ENODEV; - spin_lock(&ubd_lock); + mutex_lock(&ubd_lock); if(ubd_gendisk[n] == NULL) goto out; @@ -801,7 +802,7 @@ static int ubd_remove(int n) *ubd_dev = ((struct ubd) DEFAULT_UBD); err = 0; out: - spin_unlock(&ubd_lock); + mutex_unlock(&ubd_lock); return err; } Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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