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author | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2011-01-06 22:31:35 +0000 |
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committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2011-01-06 22:32:03 +0000 |
commit | 4ec3eb13634529c0bc7466658d84d0bbe3244aea (patch) | |
tree | b491daac2ccfc7b8ca88e171a43f66888463568a /drivers/tty/tty_mutex.c | |
parent | 24056f525051a9e186af28904b396320e18bf9a0 (diff) | |
parent | 15095bb0fe779c0403091bda7adce5fb3bb9ca35 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'smp' into misc
Conflicts:
arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
arch/arm/mm/ioremap.c
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/tty/tty_mutex.c')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/tty/tty_mutex.c | 47 |
1 files changed, 47 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_mutex.c b/drivers/tty/tty_mutex.c new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..133697540c73 --- /dev/null +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_mutex.c @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +/* + * drivers/char/tty_lock.c + */ +#include <linux/tty.h> +#include <linux/module.h> +#include <linux/kallsyms.h> +#include <linux/semaphore.h> +#include <linux/sched.h> + +/* + * The 'big tty mutex' + * + * This mutex is taken and released by tty_lock() and tty_unlock(), + * replacing the older big kernel lock. + * It can no longer be taken recursively, and does not get + * released implicitly while sleeping. + * + * Don't use in new code. + */ +static DEFINE_MUTEX(big_tty_mutex); +struct task_struct *__big_tty_mutex_owner; +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__big_tty_mutex_owner); + +/* + * Getting the big tty mutex. + */ +void __lockfunc tty_lock(void) +{ + struct task_struct *task = current; + + WARN_ON(__big_tty_mutex_owner == task); + + mutex_lock(&big_tty_mutex); + __big_tty_mutex_owner = task; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_lock); + +void __lockfunc tty_unlock(void) +{ + struct task_struct *task = current; + + WARN_ON(__big_tty_mutex_owner != task); + __big_tty_mutex_owner = NULL; + + mutex_unlock(&big_tty_mutex); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_unlock); |