On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 05:52:25PM -0400, Erik Arfvidson wrote:
> This patch adds comment documentation to visorchannel_tag struct
>
> Signed-off-by: Erik Arfvidson <erik.arfvidson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Romer <benjamin.romer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/unisys/visorchannel/visorchannel_funcs.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/unisys/visorchannel/visorchannel_funcs.c b/drivers/staging/unisys/visorchannel/visorchannel_funcs.c
> index 01a44c5..48e28e3 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/unisys/visorchannel/visorchannel_funcs.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/unisys/visorchannel/visorchannel_funcs.c
> @@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ struct VISORCHANNEL_Tag {
> uuid_le guid;
> ulong size;
> BOOL needs_lock;
> - spinlock_t insert_lock;
> - spinlock_t remove_lock;
> + spinlock_t insert_lock; /* insert lock for visorchannel queue */
> + spinlock_t remove_lock; /* remove lock for visorchannel queue */
The locking here is sort of weird and these comments aren't enough to
help me understand.
When is needs_lock true/false? How can it possibly work with separate
remove/insert locks? Doessn't that mean removing and inserting at the
same time is racy?
regards,
dan carpenter
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