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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Giedrius Statkevicius <giedrius.statkevicius@gmail.com>
Cc: lidza.louina@gmail.com, markh@compro.net,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] staging: dgnc: improve the coding style in unlocking part of dgnc_tty_write()
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 11:19:53 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150407081953.GW16501@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150407081748.GC10964@mwanda>

On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 11:17:48AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> This patch changes the lock ordering (behavior change) and it's not
> described in the changelog.  Please figure out which way is the correct
> ordering and resend.

Actually the original ordering was obviously correct.  You can't take
a mutex if you are holding a spinlock.  So it always has to be:

mutex_lock();
spin_lock();

spin_unlock();
mutext_unlock();

regards,
dan carpenter


  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-07  8:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-05 21:15 [PATCH 1/3] staging: dgnc: use a real mutex instead of masquerading a semaphore as a mutex Giedrius Statkevicius
2015-04-05 21:15 ` [PATCH 2/3] staging: dgnc: remove redundant check Giedrius Statkevicius
2015-04-05 21:15 ` [PATCH 3/3] staging: dgnc: improve the coding style in unlocking part of dgnc_tty_write() Giedrius Statkevicius
2015-04-07  8:17   ` Dan Carpenter
2015-04-07  8:19     ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2015-04-07  8:25       ` Dan Carpenter

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