Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760056Ab0HEJ65 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2010 05:58:57 -0400 Received: from smtp.nokia.com ([192.100.122.233]:52631 "EHLO mgw-mx06.nokia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760042Ab0HEJ6v (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2010 05:58:51 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change struct flchip_shared spinlock locking into mutex From: Artem Bityutskiy Reply-To: dedekind1@gmail.com To: stefani@seibold.net Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, Arnd Bergmann , Vasiliy Kulikov , David Woodhouse , Nicolas Pitre , Hans-Christian Egtvedt , Jiri Slaby , Tejun Heo , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org In-Reply-To: <1280992766-13745-1-git-send-email-stefani@seibold.net> References: <1280992766-13745-1-git-send-email-stefani@seibold.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:37:47 +0300 Message-ID: <1281001067.15689.80.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.2 (2.30.2-4.fc13) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Aug 2010 09:39:06.0220 (UTC) FILETIME=[0C046AC0:01CB3482] X-Nokia-AV: Clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 749 Lines: 22 On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 09:19 +0200, stefani@seibold.net wrote: > From: Stefani Seibold > > This patch prevent to schedule while atomic by changing the > flchip_shared spinlock into a mutex. This should be save since no atomic > path will use this lock. > > This patch is based on linux kernel 2.6.35. Please apply. > > It was suggested by Arnd Bergmann and Vasiliy Kulikov. Pushed to my l2-mtd-2.6.git / master. -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/