From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753621Ab0JEFLf (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2010 01:11:35 -0400 Received: from fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.35]:56338 "EHLO fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752073Ab0JEFLd (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2010 01:11:33 -0400 X-SecurityPolicyCheck-FJ: OK by FujitsuOutboundMailChecker v1.3.1 Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 14:06:04 +0900 From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki To: Nathan Fontenot Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Greg KH , Dave Hansen , Robin Holt , steiner@sgi.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] v3 Add mutex for adding/removing memory blocks Message-Id: <20101005140604.6bbd8ae0.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: <4CA62896.2060307@austin.ibm.com> References: <4CA62700.7010809@austin.ibm.com> <4CA62896.2060307@austin.ibm.com> Organization: FUJITSU Co. LTD. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.3 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i686-pc-mingw32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:29:42 -0500 Nathan Fontenot wrote: > Add a new mutex for use in adding and removing of memory blocks. This > is needed to avoid any race conditions in which the same memory block could > be added and removed at the same time. > > Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot > Reviewed-By: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki