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| author | Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> | 2010-08-04 13:34:31 +0200 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> | 2010-08-07 18:53:57 +0200 |
| commit | 6bf05d03ea8d00bb53e0642f94a5a6815be2edb6 (patch) | |
| tree | d36ea43efb9306fa4ff2fdb8f579fb661cad61e8 /mm/backing-dev.c | |
| parent | e7f52dfb4f378ea1bbfd4476f4e8ba42f5fb332c (diff) | |
| download | linux-rt-6bf05d03ea8d00bb53e0642f94a5a6815be2edb6.tar.gz | |
writeback: fix bad _bh spinlock nesting
Fix a bug where a lock is _bh nested within another _bh lock,
but forgets to use the _bh variant for unlock.
Further more, it's not necessary to test _bh locks, the inner lock
can just use spin_lock(). So fix up the bug by making that change.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/backing-dev.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/backing-dev.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c index 0b8ee66993dd..08d357522e78 100644 --- a/mm/backing-dev.c +++ b/mm/backing-dev.c @@ -415,7 +415,8 @@ static int bdi_forker_thread(void *ptr) break; } - spin_lock_bh(&bdi->wb_lock); + spin_lock(&bdi->wb_lock); + /* * If there is no work to do and the bdi thread was * inactive long enough - kill it. The wb_lock is taken @@ -432,7 +433,7 @@ static int bdi_forker_thread(void *ptr) action = KILL_THREAD; break; } - spin_unlock_bh(&bdi->wb_lock); + spin_unlock(&bdi->wb_lock); } spin_unlock_bh(&bdi_lock); |