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authorSeth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2013-08-20 16:05:05 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-08-21 11:52:20 -0700
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drivers: base: use standard device online/offline for state change
There are two ways to set the online/offline state for a memory block: echo 0|1 > online and echo online|online_kernel|online_movable|offline > state. The state attribute can online a memory block with extra data, the "online type", where the online attribute uses a default online type of ONLINE_KEEP, same as echo online > state. Currently there is a state_mutex that provides consistency between the memory block state and the underlying memory. The problem is that this code does a lot of things that the common device layer can do for us, such as the serialization of the online/offline handlers using the device lock, setting the dev->offline field, and calling kobject_uevent(). This patch refactors the online/offline code to allow the common device_[online|offline] functions to be used. The result is a simpler and more common code path for the two state setting mechanisms. It also removes the state_mutex from the struct memory_block as the memory block device lock provides the state consistency. No functional change is intended by this patch. Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/memory.h')
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/memory.h b/include/linux/memory.h
index 4c89fb0c8f4c..9a6bbf76452d 100644
--- a/include/linux/memory.h
+++ b/include/linux/memory.h
@@ -25,16 +25,9 @@
struct memory_block {
unsigned long start_section_nr;
unsigned long end_section_nr;
- unsigned long state;
- int section_count;
-
- /*
- * This serializes all state change requests. It isn't
- * held during creation because the control files are
- * created long after the critical areas during
- * initialization.
- */
- struct mutex state_mutex;
+ unsigned long state; /* serialized by the dev->lock */
+ int section_count; /* serialized by mem_sysfs_mutex */
+ int online_type; /* for passing data to online routine */
int phys_device; /* to which fru does this belong? */
void *hw; /* optional pointer to fw/hw data */
int (*phys_callback)(struct memory_block *);