The patch titled stopmachine: semaphore to mutex has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is stopmachine-semaphore-to-mutex.patch *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: stopmachine: semaphore to mutex From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/stop_machine.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/stop_machine.c~stopmachine-semaphore-to-mutex kernel/stop_machine.c --- a/kernel/stop_machine.c~stopmachine-semaphore-to-mutex +++ a/kernel/stop_machine.c @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ enum stopmachine_state { static enum stopmachine_state stopmachine_state; static unsigned int stopmachine_num_threads; static atomic_t stopmachine_thread_ack; -static DECLARE_MUTEX(stopmachine_mutex); +static DEFINE_MUTEX(stopmachine_mutex); static int stopmachine(void *cpu) { @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ struct task_struct *__stop_machine_run(i smdata.data = data; init_completion(&smdata.done); - down(&stopmachine_mutex); + mutex_lock(&stopmachine_mutex); /* If they don't care which CPU fn runs on, bind to any online one. */ if (cpu == NR_CPUS) @@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ struct task_struct *__stop_machine_run(i wake_up_process(p); wait_for_completion(&smdata.done); } - up(&stopmachine_mutex); + mutex_unlock(&stopmachine_mutex); return p; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx are media-video-usbvision-add-mutex_unlock-to-error-paths.patch media-video-usbvision-add-mutex_unlock-to-error-paths-fix.patch media-video-usbvision-remove-ctrlurblock.patch usb-testing-driver-dont-free-a-locked-mutex.patch mcheck-mce_64-mce_read_sem-to-mutex.patch drivers-char-tty_ioc-remove-pty_sem.patch drivers-isdn-i4l-isdn_ttyc-remove-write_sem.patch unix98-allocated_ptys_lock-semaphore-to-mutex.patch docs-kernel-locking-convert-semaphore-references.patch stopmachine-semaphore-to-mutex.patch isapnp-driver-semaphore-to-mutex.patch isapnp-driver-semaphore-to-mutex-fix.patch isapnp-driver-semaphore-to-mutex-fix-fix.patch profile-likely-unlikely-macros.patch profile-likely-unlikely-macros-fix.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html