On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 03:37:55PM -0700, Baicar, Tyler wrote: > On 2/10/2016 11:03 AM, Will Deacon wrote: > >On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 12:13:28PM -0700, Tyler Baicar wrote: > >>diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c > >>index 6c68100..ed64b97 100644 > >>--- a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c > >>+++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c > >>@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ > >> #include <acpi/apei.h> > >> #include <asm/tlbflush.h> > >>+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ACPI_APEI_SEA > >>+#include <asm/system_misc.h> > >>+#endif > >>+ > >> #include "apei-internal.h" > >> #define GHES_PFX "GHES: " > >>@@ -784,6 +788,62 @@ static struct notifier_block ghes_notifier_sci = { > >> .notifier_call = ghes_notify_sci, > >> }; > >>+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ACPI_APEI_SEA > >>+static LIST_HEAD(ghes_sea); > >>+ > >>+static int ghes_notify_sea(struct notifier_block *this, > >>+ unsigned long event, void *data) > >>+{ > >>+ struct ghes *ghes; > >>+ int ret = NOTIFY_DONE; > >>+ > >>+ rcu_read_lock(); > >>+ list_for_each_entry_rcu(ghes, &ghes_sea, list) { > >>+ if (!ghes_proc(ghes)) > >>+ ret = NOTIFY_OK; > >>+ } > >>+ rcu_read_unlock(); > >>+ > >>+ return ret; > >>+} > >>+ > >>+static struct notifier_block ghes_notifier_sea = { > >>+ .notifier_call = ghes_notify_sea, > >>+}; > >>+ > >>+static int ghes_sea_add(struct ghes *ghes) > >>+{ > >>+ mutex_lock(&ghes_list_mutex); > >Can you just use spin_lock, to be consistent with our other excception > >hooks? > This mutex is being used throughout ghes.c for editing the lists, so I think > this is the proper (or at least consistent) implementation. This mutex was > defined specifically for editing the lists according to the comment above > the mutex definition: > > "All error sources notified with SCI shares one notifier function, so they > need to be linked and checked one by one. This is applied to NMI too. RCU is > used for these lists, so ghes_list_mutex is only used for list changing, not > for traversing." > > The use of this mutex is identical to the way that SCI and NMI use it when > adding or deleting from the lists. Should I add to this comment that this > applies to SEA as well? No, it's fine. I overlooked the fact that this was under drivers/acpi/, so if you're consistent with other code under there then there's no need to change anything. Will -- 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