From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail143.messagelabs.com (mail143.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 058356B02A5 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2010 09:56:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from d01relay01.pok.ibm.com (d01relay01.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.233]) by e4.ny.us.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id o79Dfge7023007 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2010 09:41:42 -0400 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (d03av04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.170]) by d01relay01.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id o79DuDbi371916 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2010 09:56:13 -0400 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id o79DttSl026410 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2010 07:55:56 -0600 Message-ID: <4C6008EA.8040601@austin.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:55:54 -0500 From: Nathan Fontenot MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9] v4 Add mutex for add/remove of memory blocks References: <4C581A6D.9030908@austin.ibm.com> <4C581C26.5080007@austin.ibm.com> <20100805135314.7229d07c.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: <20100805135314.7229d07c.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Greg KH , Dave Hansen List-ID: On 08/04/2010 11:53 PM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:39:50 -0500 > Nathan Fontenot 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 > > Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki > > 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 >> #include >> >> +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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org