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

From: Nathan Fontenot <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:55:54 -0500

On 08/04/2010 11:53 PM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:39:50 -0500
> Nathan Fontenot <[email-masked]> 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 <[email-masked]>
> 
> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email-masked]>
> 
> 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.
> 

ok,  fixed in the next version of the patches.

-Nathan