From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] AF_UNIX: update locking comment
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:34:23 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100218093423.52165efd@nehalam> (raw)
The lock used in unix_state_lock() is a spin_lock not reader-writer.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
--- a/net/unix/af_unix.c 2010-02-18 09:29:38.948513483 -0800
+++ b/net/unix/af_unix.c 2010-02-18 09:32:18.584389536 -0800
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ static inline void unix_set_secdata(stru
/*
* SMP locking strategy:
* hash table is protected with spinlock unix_table_lock
- * each socket state is protected by separate rwlock.
+ * each socket state is protected by separate spin lock.
*/
static inline unsigned unix_hash_fold(__wsum n)
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2010-02-18 17:34 Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2010-02-18 22:12 ` [PATCH] AF_UNIX: update locking comment David Miller
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2011-03-13 20:11 [PATCH] af_unix: " dbaluta
2011-03-14 22:26 ` David Miller
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