[PATCH] OF: Fixup resursive locking code paths
Paul Gortmaker
paul.gortmaker at windriver.com
Tue Feb 5 03:10:35 EST 2013
On 13-02-04 05:48 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2013, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
>
>> From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
>>
>> There is no real reason to use a rwlock for devtree_lock. It even
>> could be a mutex, but unfortunately it's locked from cpu hotplug
>> paths which can't schedule :(
>>
>> So it needs to become a raw lock on rt as well. The devtree_lock would
>> be the only user of a raw_rw_lock, so we are better off cleaning up the
>> recursive locking paths which allows us to convert devtree_lock to a
>> read_lock.
>
> Hmm. It's already a rw_lock. For RT we want to change that thing to a
> raw_spinlock.
Thanks for the reminder. Part 2 sent now that the cleanup got OK'd.
Paul.
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>
> Thanks,
>
> tglx
>
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