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authorNadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>2007-10-19 08:40:54 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-19 20:53:48 +0200
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parentipc: fix wrong comments (diff)
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fix idr_find() locking
This is a patch that fixes the way idr_find() used to be called in ipc_lock(): in all the paths that don't imply an update of the ipcs idr, it was called without the idr tree being locked. The changes are: . in ipc_ids, the mutex has been changed into a reader/writer semaphore. . ipc_lock() now takes the mutex as a reader during the idr_find(). . a new routine ipc_lock_down() has been defined: it doesn't take the mutex, assuming that it is being held by the caller. This is the routine that is now called in all the update paths. Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net> Acked-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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