From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx164.postini.com [74.125.245.164]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D7E316B0034 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 13:13:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Seth Jennings Subject: [PATCH 1/7] drivers: base: move mutex lock out of add_memory_section() Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 12:12:57 -0500 Message-Id: <1377018783-26756-1-git-send-email-sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Seth Jennings , Dave Hansen , Nathan Fontenot , Cody P Schafer , Andrew Morton , Lai Jiangshan , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Yinghai Lu , Wanpeng Li , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org There is no point in releasing the mutex for each section that is added during boot time. Just hold it over the entire initialization loop. Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings --- drivers/base/memory.c | 13 +++++++++---- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/base/memory.c b/drivers/base/memory.c index 2b7813e..278bb3da 100644 --- a/drivers/base/memory.c +++ b/drivers/base/memory.c @@ -613,8 +613,6 @@ static int add_memory_section(int nid, struct mem_section *section, int scn_nr = __section_nr(section); int ret = 0; - mutex_lock(&mem_sysfs_mutex); - if (context == BOOT) { /* same memory block ? */ if (mem_p && *mem_p) @@ -643,7 +641,6 @@ static int add_memory_section(int nid, struct mem_section *section, ret = register_mem_sect_under_node(mem, nid); } - mutex_unlock(&mem_sysfs_mutex); return ret; } @@ -653,7 +650,13 @@ static int add_memory_section(int nid, struct mem_section *section, */ int register_new_memory(int nid, struct mem_section *section) { - return add_memory_section(nid, section, NULL, MEM_OFFLINE, HOTPLUG); + int ret; + + mutex_lock(&mem_sysfs_mutex); + ret = add_memory_section(nid, section, NULL, MEM_OFFLINE, HOTPLUG); + mutex_unlock(&mem_sysfs_mutex); + + return ret; } #ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE @@ -746,6 +749,7 @@ int __init memory_dev_init(void) * Create entries for memory sections that were found * during boot and have been initialized */ + mutex_lock(&mem_sysfs_mutex); for (i = 0; i < NR_MEM_SECTIONS; i++) { if (!present_section_nr(i)) continue; @@ -757,6 +761,7 @@ int __init memory_dev_init(void) if (!ret) ret = err; } + mutex_unlock(&mem_sysfs_mutex); out: if (ret) -- 1.8.3.4 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org