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| author | Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> | 2005-11-07 00:59:54 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-11-07 07:53:43 -0800 |
| commit | 393d2cc354d150b8b4bb888a9da7db4c935e12bd (patch) | |
| tree | b696a63b19d8bc3ce9a9c2bb0e66aa91fcf954a4 /drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_kcs_sm.c | |
| parent | f5b3db0017f8415301f3427b30263186e8478c3f (diff) | |
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[PATCH] ipmi: use refcount in message handler
This patch is rather large, but it really can't be done in smaller chunks
easily and I believe it is an important change. This has been out and tested
for a while in the latest IPMI driver release. There are no functional
changes, just changes as necessary to convert the locking over (and a few
minor style updates).
The IPMI driver uses read/write locks to ensure that things exist while they
are in use. This is bad from a number of points of view. This patch removes
the rwlocks and uses refcounts and RCU lists to manage what the locks did.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_kcs_sm.c')
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