From 5b8c4f23c54edda640a4850bc9b81dee70acb525 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 14:33:43 +0000 Subject: printk: Make console_sem a semaphore not a pseudo mutex It needs to be investigated whether it can be replaced by a real mutex, but that needs more thought. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Christoph Hellwig LKML-Reference: <20100907125057.179587334@linutronix.de> --- kernel/printk.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/printk.c') diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c index 8fe465ac008a..2531017795f6 100644 --- a/kernel/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk.c @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(oops_in_progress); * provides serialisation for access to the entire console * driver system. */ -static DECLARE_MUTEX(console_sem); +static DEFINE_SEMAPHORE(console_sem); struct console *console_drivers; EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(console_drivers); @@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ static void zap_locks(void) /* If a crash is occurring, make sure we can't deadlock */ spin_lock_init(&logbuf_lock); /* And make sure that we print immediately */ - init_MUTEX(&console_sem); + sema_init(&console_sem, 1); } #if defined(CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME) -- cgit v1.2.3