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* [PATCH] fix boot hang on some architectures
@ 2005-04-02 19:46 James Bottomley
  2005-04-03 15:21 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: James Bottomley @ 2005-04-02 19:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton, Linus Torvalds; +Cc: acme, Linux Kernel

Well, this is a brown paper bag for someone.  The new protocol
registration locking uses a rwlock to limit access to the protocol list.
Unfortunately, the initialisation:

static rwlock_t proto_list_lock;

Only works to initialise the lock as unlocked on platforms whose unlock
signal is all zeros.  On other platforms, they think it's already locked
and hang forever.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>


===== net/core/sock.c 1.67 vs edited =====
--- 1.67/net/core/sock.c	2005-03-26 17:04:35 -06:00
+++ edited/net/core/sock.c	2005-04-02 13:37:20 -06:00
@@ -1352,7 +1352,7 @@
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(sk_common_release);
 
-static rwlock_t proto_list_lock;
+static DEFINE_RWLOCK(proto_list_lock);
 static LIST_HEAD(proto_list);
 
 int proto_register(struct proto *prot, int alloc_slab)



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