[PATCH] drivers/isdn/gigaset: reduce mutex scope

From: Tilman Schmidt
Date: Wed Feb 07 2007 - 16:21:50 EST


Do not lock the cardstate structure mutex earlier than necessary.

Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@xxxxxxx>

---

drivers/isdn/gigaset/common.c | 4 +---
drivers/isdn/gigaset/interface.c | 3 +++
3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff -rupX dont-diff linux-2.6.20-rc6-mm3-orig/drivers/isdn/gigaset/common.c local/drivers/isdn/gigaset/common.c
--- linux-2.6.20-rc6-mm3-orig/drivers/isdn/gigaset/common.c 2007-02-01 01:24:38.000000000 +0100
+++ local/drivers/isdn/gigaset/common.c 2007-02-01 01:09:51.000000000 +0100
@@ -640,7 +640,6 @@ struct cardstate *gigaset_initcs(struct
return NULL;
}
mutex_init(&cs->mutex);
- mutex_lock(&cs->mutex);

gig_dbg(DEBUG_INIT, "allocating bcs[0..%d]", channels - 1);
cs->bcs = kmalloc(channels * sizeof(struct bc_state), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -738,6 +737,7 @@ struct cardstate *gigaset_initcs(struct

++cs->cs_init;

+ /* set up character device */
gigaset_if_init(cs);

/* set up device sysfs */
@@ -753,11 +753,9 @@ struct cardstate *gigaset_initcs(struct
add_timer(&cs->timer);

gig_dbg(DEBUG_INIT, "cs initialized");
- mutex_unlock(&cs->mutex);
return cs;

error:
- mutex_unlock(&cs->mutex);
gig_dbg(DEBUG_INIT, "failed");
gigaset_freecs(cs);
return NULL;
diff -rupX dont-diff linux-2.6.20-rc6-mm3-orig/drivers/isdn/gigaset/interface.c local/drivers/isdn/gigaset/interface.c
--- linux-2.6.20-rc6-mm3-orig/drivers/isdn/gigaset/interface.c 2007-02-01 01:24:38.000000000 +0100
+++ local/drivers/isdn/gigaset/interface.c 2007-02-01 01:10:47.000000000 +0100
@@ -615,6 +615,8 @@ void gigaset_if_init(struct cardstate *c
return;

tasklet_init(&cs->if_wake_tasklet, &if_wake, (unsigned long) cs);
+
+ mutex_lock(&cs->mutex);
cs->tty_dev = tty_register_device(drv->tty, cs->minor_index, NULL);

if (!IS_ERR(cs->tty_dev))
@@ -623,6 +625,7 @@ void gigaset_if_init(struct cardstate *c
warn("could not register device to the tty subsystem");
cs->tty_dev = NULL;
}
+ mutex_unlock(&cs->mutex);
}

void gigaset_if_free(struct cardstate *cs)
-
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