[PATCH 4/9] v4 Add mutex for add/remove of memory blocks

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:39:50 -0500
Nathan Fontenot <nfont at austin.ibm.com> wrote:

> Add a new mutex for use in adding and removing of memory blocks.  This
> is needed to avoid any race conditions in which the same memory block could
> be added and removed at the same time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont at austin.ibm.com>

Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu at jp.fujitsu.com>

But a nitpick (see below)

> ---
>  drivers/base/memory.c |    9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6/drivers/base/memory.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/base/memory.c	2010-08-02 13:35:00.000000000 -0500
> +++ linux-2.6/drivers/base/memory.c	2010-08-02 13:45:34.000000000 -0500
> @@ -27,6 +27,8 @@
>  #include <asm/atomic.h>
>  #include <asm/uaccess.h>
>  
> +static struct mutex mem_sysfs_mutex;
> +

For static symbol of mutex, we usually do
	static DEFINE_MUTEX(mem_sysfs_mutex);

Then, extra calls of mutex_init() is not required.