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authorBob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>2009-03-09 16:31:04 +0800
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2009-03-27 12:11:02 -0400
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ACPICA: Fix AcpiWalkNamespace race condition with table unload
Added a reader/writer locking mechanism to allow multiple concurrent namespace walks (readers), but a dynamic table unload will have exclusive access to the namespace. This fixes a problem where a table unload could delete the portion of the namespace that is currently being examined by a walk. Adds a new file, utlock.c that implements the reader/writer lock mechanism. ACPICA BZ 749. http://www.acpica.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=749 Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/actables.h b/drivers/acpi/acpica/actables.h
index d8f8c5df4fbc..01c76b8ea7ba 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/actables.h
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/actables.h
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ void acpi_tb_delete_table(struct acpi_table_desc *table_desc);
void acpi_tb_terminate(void);
-void acpi_tb_delete_namespace_by_owner(u32 table_index);
+acpi_status acpi_tb_delete_namespace_by_owner(u32 table_index);
acpi_status acpi_tb_allocate_owner_id(u32 table_index);