linux-kernel - [PATCH][resend] sysfs/file.c - use mutex instead of semaphore

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Message-ID: <20070726110354.GA3672@darkstar.te-china.tietoenator.com>
Date:	Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:03:54 +0000
From:	Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>
To:	gregkh@...e.de
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH][resend] sysfs/file.c - use mutex instead of semaphore

Use mutex instead of semaphore in sysfs/file.c : sys_buffer.

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com> 

---
fs/sysfs/file.c |   14 +++++++-------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff -upr linux/fs/sysfs/file.c linux.new/fs/sysfs/file.c
--- linux/fs/sysfs/file.c	2007-07-26 10:55:11.000000000 +0000
+++ linux.new/fs/sysfs/file.c	2007-07-26 10:57:13.000000000 +0000
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
 #include <linux/namei.h>
 #include <linux/poll.h>
 #include <linux/list.h>
+#include <linux/mutex.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
-#include <asm/semaphore.h>
 
 #include "sysfs.h"
 
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ struct sysfs_buffer {
 	loff_t			pos;
 	char			* page;
 	struct sysfs_ops	* ops;
-	struct semaphore	sem;
+	struct mutex		mutex;
 	int			needs_read_fill;
 	int			event;
 };
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ sysfs_read_file(struct file *file, char 
 	struct sysfs_buffer * buffer = file->private_data;
 	ssize_t retval = 0;
 
-	down(&buffer->sem);
+	mutex_lock(&buffer->mutex);
 	if (buffer->needs_read_fill) {
 		retval = fill_read_buffer(file->f_path.dentry,buffer);
 		if (retval)
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ sysfs_read_file(struct file *file, char 
 	retval = simple_read_from_buffer(buf, count, ppos, buffer->page,
 					 buffer->count);
 out:
-	up(&buffer->sem);
+	mutex_unlock(&buffer->mutex);
 	return retval;
 }
 
@@ -228,13 +228,13 @@ sysfs_write_file(struct file *file, cons
 	struct sysfs_buffer * buffer = file->private_data;
 	ssize_t len;
 
-	down(&buffer->sem);
+	mutex_lock(&buffer->mutex);
 	len = fill_write_buffer(buffer, buf, count);
 	if (len > 0)
 		len = flush_write_buffer(file->f_path.dentry, buffer, len);
 	if (len > 0)
 		*ppos += len;
-	up(&buffer->sem);
+	mutex_unlock(&buffer->mutex);
 	return len;
 }
 
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ static int sysfs_open_file(struct inode 
 	if (!buffer)
 		goto err_out;
 
-	init_MUTEX(&buffer->sem);
+	mutex_init(&buffer->mutex);
 	buffer->needs_read_fill = 1;
 	buffer->ops = ops;
 	file->private_data = buffer;
-
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