From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757694AbYDNKXe (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:23:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752077AbYDNKXZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:23:25 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:56278 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751423AbYDNKXY (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:23:24 -0400 Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: References: To: Arun Raghavan Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, satyam@infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [keys] Use mutex instead of rw_semaphore for __key_link() serialisation X-Mailer: MH-E 8.0.3+cvs; nmh 1.2-20070115cvs; GNU Emacs 23.0.50 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:23:13 +0100 Message-ID: <2320.1208168593@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Arun Raghavan wrote: > __key_link() uses an rw_semaphore as a mutex to serialise link/link calls. > This patch converts it to explicitly use a struct mutex. > > Signed-off-by: Arun Raghavan > Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma Acked-by: David Howells