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Don Zickus abd4d5587b pstore: change mutex locking to spin_locks

pstore was using mutex locking to protect read/write access to the
backend plug-ins.  This causes problems when pstore is executed in
an NMI context through panic() -> kmsg_dump().

This patch changes the mutex to a spin_lock_irqsave then also checks to
see if we are in an NMI context.  If we are in an NMI and can't get the
lock, just print a message stating that and blow by the locking.

All this is probably a hack around the bigger locking problem but it
solves my current situation of trying to sleep in an NMI context.

Tested by loading the lkdtm module and executing a HARDLOCKUP which
will cause the machine to panic inside the nmi handler.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

2011-08-16 11:55:58 -07:00

google

Merge branch 'driver-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6

2011-07-25 23:06:24 -07:00

dcdbas.c

dcdbas: force SMI to happen when expected

2011-03-02 13:42:10 +01:00

dcdbas.h

dcdbas: export functionality for use in other drivers

2009-01-08 08:31:12 -08:00

dell_rbu.c

sysfs: add struct file* to bin_attr callbacks