Following patches will use the mutex for other purposes as well. Rename it as it is not longer a proc specific thing. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Don Zickus Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Sebastian Siewior Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Ulrich Obergfell Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Andrew Morton Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170831073053.522063960@linutronix.de --- kernel/watchdog.c | 15 +++++++-------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/watchdog.c +++ b/kernel/watchdog.c @@ -29,8 +29,7 @@ #include #include -/* Watchdog configuration */ -static DEFINE_MUTEX(watchdog_proc_mutex); +static DEFINE_MUTEX(watchdog_mutex); int __read_mostly nmi_watchdog_enabled; @@ -704,7 +703,7 @@ static int proc_watchdog_common(int whic int *watchdog_param = (int *)table->data; cpu_hotplug_disable(); - mutex_lock(&watchdog_proc_mutex); + mutex_lock(&watchdog_mutex); /* * If the parameter is being read return the state of the corresponding @@ -751,7 +750,7 @@ static int proc_watchdog_common(int whic err = proc_watchdog_update(); } out: - mutex_unlock(&watchdog_proc_mutex); + mutex_unlock(&watchdog_mutex); cpu_hotplug_enable(); return err; } @@ -795,7 +794,7 @@ int proc_watchdog_thresh(struct ctl_tabl int err, old, new; cpu_hotplug_disable(); - mutex_lock(&watchdog_proc_mutex); + mutex_lock(&watchdog_mutex); old = ACCESS_ONCE(watchdog_thresh); err = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); @@ -817,7 +816,7 @@ int proc_watchdog_thresh(struct ctl_tabl set_sample_period(); } out: - mutex_unlock(&watchdog_proc_mutex); + mutex_unlock(&watchdog_mutex); cpu_hotplug_enable(); return err; } @@ -834,7 +833,7 @@ int proc_watchdog_cpumask(struct ctl_tab int err; cpu_hotplug_disable(); - mutex_lock(&watchdog_proc_mutex); + mutex_lock(&watchdog_mutex); err = proc_do_large_bitmap(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); if (!err && write) { @@ -855,7 +854,7 @@ int proc_watchdog_cpumask(struct ctl_tab watchdog_nmi_reconfigure(); } - mutex_unlock(&watchdog_proc_mutex); + mutex_unlock(&watchdog_mutex); cpu_hotplug_enable(); return err; }