This implements more granular locking in vme_user_ioctl() by using separate locks for each devfs device. This also provides a synchronization between vme_user_read(), vme_user_write() and vme_user_ioctl(). Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kalinkin <dmitry.kalinkin@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Igor Alekseev <igor.alekseev@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c b/drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c index 8b1f533..8731838 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c +++ b/drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c @@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ #include "vme_user.h" -static DEFINE_MUTEX(vme_user_mutex); static const char driver_name[] = "vme_user"; static int bus[VME_USER_BUS_MAX]; @@ -555,10 +554,12 @@ static long vme_user_unlocked_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) { int ret; + struct inode *inode = file_inode(file); + unsigned int minor = MINOR(inode->i_rdev); - mutex_lock(&vme_user_mutex); - ret = vme_user_ioctl(file_inode(file), file, cmd, arg); - mutex_unlock(&vme_user_mutex); + mutex_lock(&image[minor].mutex); + ret = vme_user_ioctl(inode, file, cmd, arg); + mutex_unlock(&image[minor].mutex); return ret; } -- 1.9.1 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel