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authorJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>2005-08-22 10:06:19 -0500
committerJames Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.(none)>2005-08-30 22:44:20 -0500
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parent51490c89f95b8581782e9baa855da166441852be (diff)
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[SCSI] correct attribute_container list usage
One of the changes in the attribute_container code in the scsi-misc tree was to add a lock to protect the list of devices per container. This, unfortunately, leads to potential scheduling while atomic problems if there's a sleep in the function called by a trigger. The correct solution is to use the kernel klist infrastructure instead which allows lockless traversal of a list. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/attribute_container.h b/include/linux/attribute_container.h
index ee83fe64a102..93bfb0beb62a 100644
--- a/include/linux/attribute_container.h
+++ b/include/linux/attribute_container.h
@@ -11,12 +11,12 @@
#include <linux/device.h>
#include <linux/list.h>
+#include <linux/klist.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
struct attribute_container {
struct list_head node;
- struct list_head containers;
- spinlock_t containers_lock;
+ struct klist containers;
struct class *class;
struct class_device_attribute **attrs;
int (*match)(struct attribute_container *, struct device *);