The patch titled netdev: ehea: semaphore to mutex has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is net-ehea-semaphore-to-mutex.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** 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 The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: netdev: ehea: semaphore to mutex From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> Converted the dlpar_mem_lock. With a bit of cleanup, I converted to DEFINE_MUTEX() instead of a runtime init. I also made the lock static. Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Raisch <raisch@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Klein <tklein@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c~net-ehea-semaphore-to-mutex drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c --- a/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c~net-ehea-semaphore-to-mutex +++ a/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ #include <linux/notifier.h> #include <linux/reboot.h> #include <asm/kexec.h> +#include <linux/mutex.h> #include <net/ip.h> @@ -99,7 +100,7 @@ static int port_name_cnt; static LIST_HEAD(adapter_list); u64 ehea_driver_flags; struct work_struct ehea_rereg_mr_task; -struct semaphore dlpar_mem_lock; +static DEFINE_MUTEX(dlpar_mem_lock); struct ehea_fw_handle_array ehea_fw_handles; struct ehea_bcmc_reg_array ehea_bcmc_regs; @@ -2830,7 +2831,7 @@ static void ehea_rereg_mrs(struct work_s int ret, i; struct ehea_adapter *adapter; - down(&dlpar_mem_lock); + mutex_lock(&dlpar_mem_lock); ehea_info("LPAR memory enlarged - re-initializing driver"); list_for_each_entry(adapter, &adapter_list, list) @@ -2902,7 +2903,7 @@ static void ehea_rereg_mrs(struct work_s } } } - up(&dlpar_mem_lock); + mutex_unlock(&dlpar_mem_lock); ehea_info("re-initializing driver complete"); out: return; @@ -3543,7 +3544,6 @@ int __init ehea_module_init(void) memset(&ehea_fw_handles, 0, sizeof(ehea_fw_handles)); memset(&ehea_bcmc_regs, 0, sizeof(ehea_bcmc_regs)); - sema_init(&dlpar_mem_lock, 1); sema_init(&ehea_fw_handles.lock, 1); sema_init(&ehea_bcmc_regs.lock, 1); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx are net-ehea-semaphore-to-mutex.patch net-ehea-ehea_fw_handles-semaphore-to-mutex.patch net-ehea-locking-order-correction.patch net-ehea-bcmc_regs-semaphore-to-mutex.patch net-ehea-port_lock-semaphore-to-mutex.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