From: Andrew Morton Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:40:27 +0000 (-0700) Subject: kexec: use a mutex for locking rather than xchg() X-Git-Tag: v2.6.27-rc4~89 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8c5a1cf0ad3ac5fcdf51314a63b16a440870f6a2;p=linux-2.6 kexec: use a mutex for locking rather than xchg() Functionally the same, but more conventional. Cc: Huang Ying Tested-by: Vivek Goyal Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c index 9fc6f7cbd8..59f3f0df35 100644 --- a/kernel/kexec.c +++ b/kernel/kexec.c @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ #include #include #include -#include +#include #include #include #include @@ -924,19 +924,14 @@ static int kimage_load_segment(struct kimage *image, */ struct kimage *kexec_image; struct kimage *kexec_crash_image; -/* - * A home grown binary mutex. - * Nothing can wait so this mutex is safe to use - * in interrupt context :) - */ -static int kexec_lock; + +static DEFINE_MUTEX(kexec_mutex); asmlinkage long sys_kexec_load(unsigned long entry, unsigned long nr_segments, struct kexec_segment __user *segments, unsigned long flags) { struct kimage **dest_image, *image; - int locked; int result; /* We only trust the superuser with rebooting the system. */ @@ -972,8 +967,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_kexec_load(unsigned long entry, unsigned long nr_segments, * * KISS: always take the mutex. */ - locked = xchg(&kexec_lock, 1); - if (locked) + if (!mutex_trylock(&kexec_mutex)) return -EBUSY; dest_image = &kexec_image; @@ -1015,8 +1009,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_kexec_load(unsigned long entry, unsigned long nr_segments, image = xchg(dest_image, image); out: - locked = xchg(&kexec_lock, 0); /* Release the mutex */ - BUG_ON(!locked); + mutex_unlock(&kexec_mutex); kimage_free(image); return result; @@ -1063,10 +1056,7 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_kexec_load(unsigned long entry, void crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs) { - int locked; - - - /* Take the kexec_lock here to prevent sys_kexec_load + /* Take the kexec_mutex here to prevent sys_kexec_load * running on one cpu from replacing the crash kernel * we are using after a panic on a different cpu. * @@ -1074,8 +1064,7 @@ void crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs) * of memory the xchg(&kexec_crash_image) would be * sufficient. But since I reuse the memory... */ - locked = xchg(&kexec_lock, 1); - if (!locked) { + if (mutex_trylock(&kexec_mutex)) { if (kexec_crash_image) { struct pt_regs fixed_regs; crash_setup_regs(&fixed_regs, regs); @@ -1083,8 +1072,7 @@ void crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs) machine_crash_shutdown(&fixed_regs); machine_kexec(kexec_crash_image); } - locked = xchg(&kexec_lock, 0); - BUG_ON(!locked); + mutex_unlock(&kexec_mutex); } } @@ -1434,7 +1422,7 @@ int kernel_kexec(void) { int error = 0; - if (xchg(&kexec_lock, 1)) + if (!mutex_trylock(&kexec_mutex)) return -EBUSY; if (!kexec_image) { error = -EINVAL; @@ -1498,8 +1486,6 @@ int kernel_kexec(void) #endif Unlock: - if (!xchg(&kexec_lock, 0)) - BUG(); - + mutex_unlock(&kexec_mutex); return error; }