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authorRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>2008-06-11 16:09:45 -0400
committerAndi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>2008-07-16 17:27:03 -0400
commit25f2f3daadaf0768a61d02ee3ed3d9a21e9dc46c (patch)
tree6b17e6d78f562825cc9fc26259f9e5d5f8e80087 /drivers/misc
parent52d11025dba32bed696eaee1822b26529e764770 (diff)
snapshot: Use pm_mutex for mutual exclusion
We can avoid taking the BKL in snapshot_ioctl() if pm_mutex is used to prevent the ioctls from being executed concurrently. In addition, although it is only possible to open /dev/snapshot once, the task which has done that may spawn a child that will inherit the open descriptor, so in theory they can call snapshot_write(), snapshot_read() and snapshot_release() concurrently. pm_mutex can also be used for mutual exclusion in such cases. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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