Re: [PATCH] dca: redesign locks

[Jeff Kirsher]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Maciej Sosnowski
<maciej.sosnowski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Change spin_locks to irqsave to prevent dead-locks.
> Protect adding and deleting to/from dca_providers list.
> Drop the lock during dca_sysfs_add_req() and dca_sysfs_remove_req() calls
> as they might sleep (use GFP_KERNEL allocation).
>
> Signed-off-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
>  drivers/dca/dca-core.c |   51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  1 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>

Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@xxxxxxxxx>

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Cheers,
Jeff
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