Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756633Ab0HIN4R (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2010 09:56:17 -0400 Received: from e38.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.159]:40660 "EHLO e38.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756425Ab0HIN4Q (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2010 09:56:16 -0400 Message-ID: <4C6008EA.8040601@austin.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:55:54 -0500 From: Nathan Fontenot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100713 Thunderbird/3.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Greg KH , Dave Hansen Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9] v4 Add mutex for add/remove of memory blocks References: <4C581A6D.9030908@austin.ibm.com> <4C581C26.5080007@austin.ibm.com> <20100805135314.7229d07c.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: <20100805135314.7229d07c.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1427 Lines: 43 On 08/04/2010 11:53 PM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:39:50 -0500 > Nathan Fontenot wrote: > >> Add a new mutex for use in adding and removing of memory blocks. This >> is needed to avoid any race conditions in which the same memory block could >> be added and removed at the same time. >> >> Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot > > Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki > > But a nitpick (see below) > >> --- >> drivers/base/memory.c | 9 +++++++++ >> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) >> >> Index: linux-2.6/drivers/base/memory.c >> =================================================================== >> --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/base/memory.c 2010-08-02 13:35:00.000000000 -0500 >> +++ linux-2.6/drivers/base/memory.c 2010-08-02 13:45:34.000000000 -0500 >> @@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ >> #include >> #include >> >> +static struct mutex mem_sysfs_mutex; >> + > > For static symbol of mutex, we usually do > static DEFINE_MUTEX(mem_sysfs_mutex); > > Then, extra calls of mutex_init() is not required. > ok, fixed in the next version of the patches. -Nathan -- 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/