Re: [patch 05/10] cifs: convert semaphore to mutex

Steve French
2010-01-30T04:08:59Z

Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote on 01/29/2010 04:29:05 PM:

> Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
> 01/29/2010 04:29 PM
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> To
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> Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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> cc
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> LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Christoph Hellwig
> <hch@infradead.org>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Ingo
> Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>, Steven
> French/Austin/IBM@IBMUS
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> Subject
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> Re: [patch 05/10] cifs: convert semaphore to mutex
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> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 08:38:50PM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > pSesInfo->sesSem is used as mutex. Rename it to session_mutex and
> > convert it to a real mutex.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> > Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
> > Cc: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
>
> Looks good, but I'm pretty sure I've seen an equivalent patch on the
> linux-cifs-client list before.
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> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Jeff and I acked the cifs part of the patch series in July - not sure
why the series didn't go in.

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124859649902788&w=2 looks like the
original post

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Thanks,

Steve