linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Change struct flchip_shared spinlock locking into mutex

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Message-Id: <1280984291.1175.15.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 05 Aug 2010 07:58:11 +0300
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
To:	stefani@...bold.net
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@...il.com>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@...ia.com>,
	David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@...el.com>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nico@...xnic.net>,
	Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@...el.com>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change struct flchip_shared spinlock locking into mutex

On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 21:40 +0200, stefani@...bold.net wrote:
> From: Stefani Seibold <stefani@...bold.net>
> 
> This patch prevent to schedule while atomic by changing the
> flchip_shared spinlock into a mutex. This should be save since no atomic
> path will use this lock.
> 
> This patch is based on linux kernel 2.6.35. Please apply.
> 
> It was requested by Arnd Bergmann and Vasiliy Kulikov.

Taken to my l2-mtd-2.6.git / master

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)

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