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authorStefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>2010-08-05 03:19:26 -0400
committerDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2010-08-06 04:22:16 -0400
commit8ae664184c45def51ff0b61d4bd6c6671db6cb4f (patch)
treee377d32da757a7c61150f2569bda85411a1835eb /include/linux/mtd
parentb8664b3762dc81e7a19ad4ffaae4055d6d5a7196 (diff)
mtd: change struct flchip_shared spinlock locking into mutex
This patch prevent to schedule while atomic by changing the flchip_shared spinlock into a mutex. This should be save since no atomic path will use this lock. It was suggested by Arnd Bergmann and Vasiliy Kulikov. Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mtd')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mtd/flashchip.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mtd/flashchip.h b/include/linux/mtd/flashchip.h
index f43e9b49b751..23cc10f8e343 100644
--- a/include/linux/mtd/flashchip.h
+++ b/include/linux/mtd/flashchip.h
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ struct flchip {
92/* This is used to handle contention on write/erase operations 92/* This is used to handle contention on write/erase operations
93 between partitions of the same physical chip. */ 93 between partitions of the same physical chip. */
94struct flchip_shared { 94struct flchip_shared {
95 spinlock_t lock; 95 struct mutex lock;
96 struct flchip *writing; 96 struct flchip *writing;
97 struct flchip *erasing; 97 struct flchip *erasing;
98}; 98};