Re: [patch 05/10] cifs: convert semaphore to mutex

From: Steve French
Date: Fri Jan 29 2010 - 23:09:04 EST


Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 01/29/2010 04:29:05 PM:

> Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 01/29/2010 04:29 PM
>
> To
>
> Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> cc
>
> LKML <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Christoph Hellwig
> <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ingo
> Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>, Steven
> French/Austin/IBM@IBMUS
>
> Subject
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> Re: [patch 05/10] cifs: convert semaphore to mutex
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 08:38:50PM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > pSesInfo->sesSem is used as mutex. Rename it to session_mutex and
> > convert it to a real mutex.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Steve French <sfrench@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Looks good, but I'm pretty sure I've seen an equivalent patch on the
> linux-cifs-client list before.
>
>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

Jeff and I acked the cifs part of the patch series in July - not sure
why the series didn't go in.

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124859649902788&w=2 looks like the
original post

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Thanks,

Steve
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