The usage of this "mutex" is non obvious and used as completion in some places. Make it a semaphore. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Tony Luck --- arch/ia64/kernel/salinfo.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6-tip/arch/ia64/kernel/salinfo.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-tip.orig/arch/ia64/kernel/salinfo.c +++ linux-2.6-tip/arch/ia64/kernel/salinfo.c @@ -643,7 +643,7 @@ salinfo_init(void) for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(salinfo_log_name); i++) { data = salinfo_data + i; data->type = i; - init_MUTEX(&data->mutex); + semaphore_init(&data->mutex); dir = proc_mkdir(salinfo_log_name[i], salinfo_dir); if (!dir) continue; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/