On Saturday 14 January 2006 11:53, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 11:43 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On Saturday 14 January 2006 11:21, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
> > > Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > > @@ -1371,11 +1373,11 @@ static ssize_t psmouse_attr_set_protocol
> > > > return -EIO;
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > - up(&psmouse_sem);
> > > > + mutex_unlock(&psmouse_mutex);
> > > > serio_unpin_driver(serio);
> > > > serio_unregister_child_port(serio);
> > > > serio_pin_driver_uninterruptible(serio);
> > > > - down(&psmouse_sem);
> > > > + mutex_lock(&psmouse_mutex);
> > > Isn't that supposed to be the other way around?
> > >
> >
> > No, that's correct. We temporarily dropping the lock to let the serio core
> > do its job and then reaqcuire it again to finish what we were doing.
>
> are you REALLY sure? It looks to me as if this function is called from
> sysfs.. so you don't know that you have the lock...
>
Yes, I am sure, the sysfs helper does acquire that lock. See
drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c::psmouse_attr_set_helper()
--
Dmitry
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