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authorBob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>2009-03-09 09:31:04 +0100
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2009-03-27 17:11:02 +0100
commit8a335a2331c72e60c6b3ef09b2dedd3ba00da1b1 (patch)
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parentACPICA: FADT: Fix extraneous length mismatch warning (diff)
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ACPICA: Fix AcpiWalkNamespace race condition with table unload
Added a reader/writer locking mechanism to allow multiple concurrent namespace walks (readers), but a dynamic table unload will have exclusive access to the namespace. This fixes a problem where a table unload could delete the portion of the namespace that is currently being examined by a walk. Adds a new file, utlock.c that implements the reader/writer lock mechanism. ACPICA BZ 749. http://www.acpica.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=749 Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/acglobal.h b/drivers/acpi/acpica/acglobal.h
index f3e87ba43dbe..f431b997d2f8 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/acglobal.h
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/acglobal.h
@@ -165,6 +165,10 @@ ACPI_EXTERN u8 acpi_gbl_integer_bit_width;
ACPI_EXTERN u8 acpi_gbl_integer_byte_width;
ACPI_EXTERN u8 acpi_gbl_integer_nybble_width;
+/* Reader/Writer lock is used for namespace walk and dynamic table unload */
+
+ACPI_EXTERN struct acpi_rw_lock acpi_gbl_namespace_rw_lock;
+
/*****************************************************************************
*
* Mutual exlusion within ACPICA subsystem