El Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 01:25:58AM +0200 Andi Kleen ha dit:
> Matthias Kaehlcke <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > -static DECLARE_MUTEX(sony_sem); /* Semaphore for drive hardware access */
> > +static DEFINE_MUTEX(sony_mtx); /* Mutex for drive hardware access */
>
> That's not a spinlock. Also normally some rationale is added to the
> description for a change?
sorry i messed up the description of the change, i meant mutex instead
of spinlock (in the last days i reported some spinlock related bugs
...).
the rationale is that according to http://lwn.net/Articles/167034/
binary semaphores that aren't given in interrupt context or
locked and unlocked by different processes should be replaced by
mutexes
thanks for your comments
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