Commit-ID: 5b8c4f23c54edda640a4850bc9b81dee70acb525 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/5b8c4f23c54edda640a4850bc9b81dee70acb525 Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 14:33:43 +0000 Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> CommitDate: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:36:10 +0200 printk: Make console_sem a semaphore not a pseudo mutex It needs to be investigated whether it can be replaced by a real mutex, but that needs more thought. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> LKML-Reference: <20100907125057.179587334@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/printk.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c index 8fe465a..2531017 100644 --- a/kernel/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk.c @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(oops_in_progress); * provides serialisation for access to the entire console * driver system. */ -static DECLARE_MUTEX(console_sem); +static DEFINE_SEMAPHORE(console_sem); struct console *console_drivers; EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(console_drivers); @@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ static void zap_locks(void) /* If a crash is occurring, make sure we can't deadlock */ spin_lock_init(&logbuf_lock); /* And make sure that we print immediately */ - init_MUTEX(&console_sem); + sema_init(&console_sem, 1); } #if defined(CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html