Hello Rui, On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 04:41:23PM +0800, Zhang Rui wrote: > we need to go over all the thermal_instance list of a cooling device > to decide which cooling state to put the cooling device to. > > But at this time, as a cooling device may be referenced in multiple > thermal zones, we need to lock the list first in case > another thermal zone is updating this cooling device. > > Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Eduardo Valentin <eduardo.valentin@xxxxxx> A minor comment bellow. > --- > drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c | 8 ++++++++ > include/linux/thermal.h | 1 + > 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c > index 7f3a891..356a59d 100644 > --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c > +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c > @@ -799,6 +799,7 @@ int thermal_zone_bind_cooling_device(struct thermal_zone_device *tz, > goto remove_symbol_link; > > mutex_lock(&tz->lock); > + mutex_lock(&cdev->lock); Why do you need to lock while going through the tz thermal_instances? > list_for_each_entry(pos, &tz->thermal_instances, tz_node) > if (pos->tz == tz && pos->trip == trip && pos->cdev == cdev) { > result = -EEXIST; > @@ -808,6 +809,7 @@ int thermal_zone_bind_cooling_device(struct thermal_zone_device *tz, > list_add_tail(&dev->tz_node, &tz->thermal_instances); > list_add_tail(&dev->cdev_node, &cdev->thermal_instances); Locking the above operation should be enough, no? > } > + mutex_unlock(&cdev->lock); > mutex_unlock(&tz->lock); > > if (!result) > @@ -840,14 +842,17 @@ int thermal_zone_unbind_cooling_device(struct thermal_zone_device *tz, > struct thermal_instance *pos, *next; > > mutex_lock(&tz->lock); > + mutex_lock(&cdev->lock); > list_for_each_entry_safe(pos, next, &tz->thermal_instances, tz_node) { > if (pos->tz == tz && pos->trip == trip && pos->cdev == cdev) { > list_del(&pos->tz_node); > list_del(&pos->cdev_node); > + mutex_unlock(&cdev->lock); > mutex_unlock(&tz->lock); > goto unbind; > } > } > + mutex_unlock(&cdev->lock); > mutex_unlock(&tz->lock); > > return -ENODEV; > @@ -913,6 +918,7 @@ thermal_cooling_device_register(char *type, void *devdata, > } > > strcpy(cdev->type, type); > + mutex_init(&cdev->lock); > INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cdev->thermal_instances); > cdev->ops = ops; > cdev->updated = true; > @@ -1016,6 +1022,7 @@ static void thermal_cdev_do_update(struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev) > if (cdev->updated) > return; > > + mutex_lock(&cdev->lock); > /* Make sure cdev enters the deepest cooling state */ > list_for_each_entry(instance, &cdev->thermal_instances, cdev_node) { > if (instance->target == THERMAL_NO_TARGET) > @@ -1023,6 +1030,7 @@ static void thermal_cdev_do_update(struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev) > if (instance->target > target) > target = instance->target; > } > + mutex_unlock(&cdev->lock); > cdev->ops->set_cur_state(cdev, target); > cdev->updated = true; > } > diff --git a/include/linux/thermal.h b/include/linux/thermal.h > index 06fd04d..d02d06d 100644 > --- a/include/linux/thermal.h > +++ b/include/linux/thermal.h > @@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ struct thermal_cooling_device { > void *devdata; > const struct thermal_cooling_device_ops *ops; > bool updated; /* true if the cooling device does not need update */ > + struct mutex lock; /* protect thermal_instances list */ > struct list_head thermal_instances; > struct list_head node; > }; > -- > 1.7.9.5 > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html