Re: [PATCH] dca: redesign locks

[David Miller]

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 21:58:01 -0800

> 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>

Applied.
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