Re: [PATCH] ledtrig-cpu: use spin_lock to replace mutex lock

[Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>]

Hi Bryan,

On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 11:18 -0700, Bryan Wu wrote:
> @@ -117,14 +117,14 @@ static int __init ledtrig_cpu_init(void)
>  	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
>  		struct led_trigger_cpu *trig = &per_cpu(cpu_trig, cpu);
> 
> -		mutex_init(&trig->lock);
> +		spin_lock_init(&trig->lock);
> 
>  		snprintf(trig->name, MAX_NAME_LEN, "cpu%d", cpu);
> 
> -		mutex_lock(&trig->lock);
> +		spin_lock(&trig->lock);
>  		led_trigger_register_simple(trig->name, &trig->_trig);
>  		trig->lock_is_inited = 1;
> -		mutex_unlock(&trig->lock);
> +		spin_unlock(&trig->lock);

I wouldn't know how to fix the original problem, but I don't think this
patch is okay -- led_trigger_register_simple() does things that
potentially sleep (GFP_KERNEL allocation, down_write), so it's not safe
to call while holding a spinlock.