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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-21 09:25:15 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-21 09:25:15 -0800
commit08a4ecee986dd98e86090ff5faac4782b6765aed (patch)
tree74df5de49f38c432a6a18303b0c6d834fd09028f /fs/char_dev.c
parentba93c6297b9cfad5a70b5e5ed13c9dbead6601d3 (diff)
parentb3229087c5e08589cea4f5040dab56f7dc11332a (diff)
Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: (23 commits) [PATCH] sysfs: fix a kobject leak in sysfs_add_link on the error path [PATCH] sysfs: don't export dir symbols [PATCH] get_cpu_sysdev() signedness fix [PATCH] kobject_add_dir [PATCH] debugfs: Add debugfs_create_blob() helper for exporting binary data [PATCH] sysfs: fix problem with duplicate sysfs directories and files [PATCH] Kobject: kobject.h: fix a typo [PATCH] Kobject: provide better warning messages when people do stupid things [PATCH] Driver core: add macros notice(), dev_notice() [PATCH] firmware: fix BUG: in fw_realloc_buffer [PATCH] sysfs: kzalloc conversion [PATCH] fix module sysfs files reference counting [PATCH] add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE() to USB subsystem [PATCH] add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE() to RCU subsystem [PATCH] add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE() [PATCH] Clean up module.c symbol searching logic [PATCH] kobj_map semaphore to mutex conversion [PATCH] kref: avoid an atomic operation in kref_put() [PATCH] handle errors returned by platform_get_irq*() [PATCH] driver core: platform_get_irq*(): return -ENXIO on error ...
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/char_dev.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/char_dev.c17
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c
index 21195c48163..5c36345c9bf 100644
--- a/fs/char_dev.c
+++ b/fs/char_dev.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
#include <linux/kobject.h>
#include <linux/kobj_map.h>
#include <linux/cdev.h>
+#include <linux/mutex.h>
#ifdef CONFIG_KMOD
#include <linux/kmod.h>
@@ -28,7 +29,7 @@ static struct kobj_map *cdev_map;
#define MAX_PROBE_HASH 255 /* random */
-static DECLARE_MUTEX(chrdevs_lock);
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(chrdevs_lock);
static struct char_device_struct {
struct char_device_struct *next;
@@ -88,13 +89,13 @@ out:
void *acquire_chrdev_list(void)
{
- down(&chrdevs_lock);
+ mutex_lock(&chrdevs_lock);
return get_next_chrdev(NULL);
}
void release_chrdev_list(void *dev)
{
- up(&chrdevs_lock);
+ mutex_unlock(&chrdevs_lock);
kfree(dev);
}
@@ -151,7 +152,7 @@ __register_chrdev_region(unsigned int major, unsigned int baseminor,
memset(cd, 0, sizeof(struct char_device_struct));
- down(&chrdevs_lock);
+ mutex_lock(&chrdevs_lock);
/* temporary */
if (major == 0) {
@@ -186,10 +187,10 @@ __register_chrdev_region(unsigned int major, unsigned int baseminor,
}
cd->next = *cp;
*cp = cd;
- up(&chrdevs_lock);
+ mutex_unlock(&chrdevs_lock);
return cd;
out:
- up(&chrdevs_lock);
+ mutex_unlock(&chrdevs_lock);
kfree(cd);
return ERR_PTR(ret);
}
@@ -200,7 +201,7 @@ __unregister_chrdev_region(unsigned major, unsigned baseminor, int minorct)
struct char_device_struct *cd = NULL, **cp;
int i = major_to_index(major);
- down(&chrdevs_lock);
+ mutex_lock(&chrdevs_lock);
for (cp = &chrdevs[i]; *cp; cp = &(*cp)->next)
if ((*cp)->major == major &&
(*cp)->baseminor == baseminor &&
@@ -210,7 +211,7 @@ __unregister_chrdev_region(unsigned major, unsigned baseminor, int minorct)
cd = *cp;
*cp = cd->next;
}
- up(&chrdevs_lock);
+ mutex_unlock(&chrdevs_lock);
return cd;
}