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author | Juan Gutierrez <jgutierrez@ti.com> | 2011-09-06 09:30:16 +0300 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2011-11-11 09:43:46 -0800 |
commit | 798e0d0e7d11915656a2fbee2bce8d79fb27ccb5 (patch) | |
tree | 12fa8f4761200f569ef4f923b47fd1ff39aa6eb4 /Documentation/block | |
parent | 46651269fdcf9b6d0d47920dbf838d252943320b (diff) |
hwspinlock/core: use a mutex to protect the radix tree
commit 93b465c2e186d96fb90012ba0f9372eb9952e732 upstream.
Since we're using non-atomic radix tree allocations, we
should be protecting the tree using a mutex and not a
spinlock.
Non-atomic allocations and process context locking is good enough,
as the tree is manipulated only when locks are registered/
unregistered/requested/freed.
The locks themselves are still protected by spinlocks of course,
and mutexes are not involved in the locking/unlocking paths.
Signed-off-by: Juan Gutierrez <jgutierrez@ti.com>
[ohad@wizery.com: rewrite the commit log, #include mutex.h, add minor
commentary]
[ohad@wizery.com: update register/unregister parts in hwspinlock.txt]
Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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