linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] mmiotrace full patch, preview 1

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Date:	Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:49:22 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Pekka Paalanen <pq@....fi>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Pavel Roskin <proski@....org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] mmiotrace full patch, preview 1

On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:03:23 +0200 Pekka Paalanen <pq@....fi> wrote:

>  arch/x86/Kconfig.debug      |   33 +++
>  arch/x86/mm/Makefile        |    5 +
>  arch/x86/mm/fault.c         |   13 +
>  arch/x86/mm/kmmio.c         |  541 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/x86/mm/mmio-mod.c      |  541 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c      |    1 +
>  arch/x86/mm/pf_in.c         |  489 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/x86/mm/pf_in.h         |   39 +++
>  arch/x86/mm/testmmiotrace.c |   76 ++++++
>  include/linux/mmiotrace.h   |  104 +++++++++

Please feed the diff through scritps/checkpatch.pl and consider addressing
the things which it finds.

> +static DECLARE_MUTEX(kmmio_init_mutex);

That's not a mutex.

> +	down(&kmmio_init_mutex);

It's a semaphore.  Please do convert it to a mutex.

Andy, I'd say that addition of new semaphores is worth a warning - they're
rarely legitimate.

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