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| author | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-08-15 00:40:27 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-08-15 08:35:43 -0700 |
| commit | 8c5a1cf0ad3ac5fcdf51314a63b16a440870f6a2 (patch) | |
| tree | 6b2d9084e05083daf6de69421f323c958b1d46ec /kernel/kexec.c | |
| parent | 3122c331190e9d1622bf1c8cf6ce3b17cca67c9e (diff) | |
kexec: use a mutex for locking rather than xchg()
Functionally the same, but more conventional.
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kexec.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/kexec.c | 34 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c index 9fc6f7cbd8a..59f3f0df35d 100644 --- a/kernel/kexec.c +++ b/kernel/kexec.c @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ #include <linux/slab.h> #include <linux/fs.h> #include <linux/kexec.h> -#include <linux/spinlock.h> +#include <linux/mutex.h> #include <linux/list.h> #include <linux/highmem.h> #include <linux/syscalls.h> @@ -924,19 +924,14 @@ static int kimage_load_segment(struct kimage *image, */ struct kimage *kexec_image; struct kimage *kexec_crash_image; -/* - * A home grown binary mutex. - * Nothing can wait so this mutex is safe to use - * in interrupt context :) - */ -static int kexec_lock; + +static DEFINE_MUTEX(kexec_mutex); asmlinkage long sys_kexec_load(unsigned long entry, unsigned long nr_segments, struct kexec_segment __user *segments, unsigned long flags) { struct kimage **dest_image, *image; - int locked; int result; /* We only trust the superuser with rebooting the system. */ @@ -972,8 +967,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_kexec_load(unsigned long entry, unsigned long nr_segments, * * KISS: always take the mutex. */ - locked = xchg(&kexec_lock, 1); - if (locked) + if (!mutex_trylock(&kexec_mutex)) return -EBUSY; dest_image = &kexec_image; @@ -1015,8 +1009,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_kexec_load(unsigned long entry, unsigned long nr_segments, image = xchg(dest_image, image); out: - locked = xchg(&kexec_lock, 0); /* Release the mutex */ - BUG_ON(!locked); + mutex_unlock(&kexec_mutex); kimage_free(image); return result; @@ -1063,10 +1056,7 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_kexec_load(unsigned long entry, void crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs) { - int locked; - - - /* Take the kexec_lock here to prevent sys_kexec_load + /* Take the kexec_mutex here to prevent sys_kexec_load * running on one cpu from replacing the crash kernel * we are using after a panic on a different cpu. * @@ -1074,8 +1064,7 @@ void crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs) * of memory the xchg(&kexec_crash_image) would be * sufficient. But since I reuse the memory... */ - locked = xchg(&kexec_lock, 1); - if (!locked) { + if (mutex_trylock(&kexec_mutex)) { if (kexec_crash_image) { struct pt_regs fixed_regs; crash_setup_regs(&fixed_regs, regs); @@ -1083,8 +1072,7 @@ void crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs) machine_crash_shutdown(&fixed_regs); machine_kexec(kexec_crash_image); } - locked = xchg(&kexec_lock, 0); - BUG_ON(!locked); + mutex_unlock(&kexec_mutex); } } @@ -1434,7 +1422,7 @@ int kernel_kexec(void) { int error = 0; - if (xchg(&kexec_lock, 1)) + if (!mutex_trylock(&kexec_mutex)) return -EBUSY; if (!kexec_image) { error = -EINVAL; @@ -1498,8 +1486,6 @@ int kernel_kexec(void) #endif Unlock: - if (!xchg(&kexec_lock, 0)) - BUG(); - + mutex_unlock(&kexec_mutex); return error; } |