This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled virtio: console: rename cvq_lock to c_ivq_lock to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: virtio-console-rename-cvq_lock-to-c_ivq_lock.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 165b1b8bbc17c9469b053bab78b11b7cbce6d161 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Amit Shah <amit.shah@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:30:07 +0530 Subject: virtio: console: rename cvq_lock to c_ivq_lock From: Amit Shah <amit.shah@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 165b1b8bbc17c9469b053bab78b11b7cbce6d161 upstream. The cvq_lock was taken for the c_ivq. Rename the lock to make that obvious. We'll also add a lock around the c_ovq in the next commit, so there's no ambiguity. Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Asias He <asias@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Wanlong Gao <gaowanlong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: - Adjust context - Drop change to virtcons_restore()] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [wyj: Backported to 3.4: - pick change to virtcons_restore() from upsteam patch] Signed-off-by: Yijing Wang <wangyijing@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 17 +++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c +++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ struct ports_device { spinlock_t ports_lock; /* To protect the vq operations for the control channel */ - spinlock_t cvq_lock; + spinlock_t c_ivq_lock; /* The current config space is stored here */ struct virtio_console_config config; @@ -1474,23 +1474,23 @@ static void control_work_handler(struct portdev = container_of(work, struct ports_device, control_work); vq = portdev->c_ivq; - spin_lock(&portdev->cvq_lock); + spin_lock(&portdev->c_ivq_lock); while ((buf = virtqueue_get_buf(vq, &len))) { - spin_unlock(&portdev->cvq_lock); + spin_unlock(&portdev->c_ivq_lock); buf->len = len; buf->offset = 0; handle_control_message(portdev, buf); - spin_lock(&portdev->cvq_lock); + spin_lock(&portdev->c_ivq_lock); if (add_inbuf(portdev->c_ivq, buf) < 0) { dev_warn(&portdev->vdev->dev, "Error adding buffer to queue\n"); free_buf(buf); } } - spin_unlock(&portdev->cvq_lock); + spin_unlock(&portdev->c_ivq_lock); } static void out_intr(struct virtqueue *vq) @@ -1751,10 +1751,11 @@ static int __devinit virtcons_probe(stru if (multiport) { unsigned int nr_added_bufs; - spin_lock_init(&portdev->cvq_lock); + spin_lock_init(&portdev->c_ivq_lock); INIT_WORK(&portdev->control_work, &control_work_handler); - nr_added_bufs = fill_queue(portdev->c_ivq, &portdev->cvq_lock); + nr_added_bufs = fill_queue(portdev->c_ivq, + &portdev->c_ivq_lock); if (!nr_added_bufs) { dev_err(&vdev->dev, "Error allocating buffers for control queue\n"); @@ -1895,7 +1896,7 @@ static int virtcons_restore(struct virti return ret; if (use_multiport(portdev)) - fill_queue(portdev->c_ivq, &portdev->cvq_lock); + fill_queue(portdev->c_ivq, &portdev->c_ivq_lock); list_for_each_entry(port, &portdev->ports, list) { port->in_vq = portdev->in_vqs[port->id]; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from amit.shah@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.4/virtio-console-rename-cvq_lock-to-c_ivq_lock.patch queue-3.4/virtio-console-add-locking-around-c_ovq-operations.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html