From 8ae664184c45def51ff0b61d4bd6c6671db6cb4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefani Seibold Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 09:19:26 +0200 Subject: mtd: change struct flchip_shared spinlock locking into mutex This patch prevent to schedule while atomic by changing the flchip_shared spinlock into a mutex. This should be save since no atomic path will use this lock. It was suggested by Arnd Bergmann and Vasiliy Kulikov. Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse --- include/linux/mtd/flashchip.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/mtd') diff --git a/include/linux/mtd/flashchip.h b/include/linux/mtd/flashchip.h index f43e9b49b75..23cc10f8e34 100644 --- a/include/linux/mtd/flashchip.h +++ b/include/linux/mtd/flashchip.h @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ struct flchip { /* This is used to handle contention on write/erase operations between partitions of the same physical chip. */ struct flchip_shared { - spinlock_t lock; + struct mutex lock; struct flchip *writing; struct flchip *erasing; }; -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2