From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932936AbXGOBd1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:33:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932752AbXGOBdN (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:33:13 -0400 Received: from tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.188]:39847 "EHLO tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932567AbXGOBdL (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:33:11 -0400 Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:28:07 -0400 From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: hch@infradead.org Subject: [PATCH] Text Edit Lock - Architecture Independent Code - kerneldoc Message-ID: <20070715012807.GA23209@Krystal> References: <20070714012133.612727310@polymtl.ca> <20070714012411.845928928@polymtl.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070714012411.845928928@polymtl.ca> X-Editor: vi X-Info: http://krystal.dyndns.org:8080 X-Operating-System: Linux/2.6.21.3-grsec (i686) X-Uptime: 21:26:28 up 7 days, 15:31, 2 users, load average: 0.22, 0.19, 0.14 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Text Edit Lock - Architecture Independent Code - kerneldoc Add kerneldoc to text edit lock API. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers CC: hch@infradead.org --- include/linux/memory.h | 17 +++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6-lttng/include/linux/memory.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/include/linux/memory.h 2007-07-14 20:08:50.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-2.6-lttng/include/linux/memory.h 2007-07-14 20:18:13.000000000 -0400 @@ -86,11 +86,24 @@ extern int remove_memory_block(unsigned register_memory_notifier(&fn##_mem_nb); \ } -/* - * Take and release the kernel text modification lock, used for code patching. +/** + * kernel_text_lock - Take the kernel text modification lock + * + * Insures mutual write exclusion of kernel and modules text live text + * modification. Should be used for code patching. * Users of this lock can sleep. */ + extern void kernel_text_lock(void); + +/** + * kernel_text_unlock - Release the kernel text modification lock + * + * Insures mutual write exclusion of kernel and modules text live text + * modification. Should be used for code patching. + * Users of this lock can sleep. + */ + extern void kernel_text_unlock(void); #endif /* _LINUX_MEMORY_H_ */ -- Mathieu Desnoyers Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68