From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: xiaomin1 <xiaoming.wang@intel.com>
Cc: arnd@arndb.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
chuansheng.liu@intel.com,
Zhang Dongxing <dongxing.zhang@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] move file->f_op->open out of mutex (misc_mtx) in misc_open
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 14:47:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150109224707.GA3026@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1420504447-9670-1-git-send-email-xiaoming.wang@intel.com>
On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 08:34:07AM +0800, xiaomin1 wrote:
> misc_mtx was used to mutex misc_list.
> But file->f_op->open may be blocked by downloading
> firmware in some devices' open.
> So move file->f_op->open out of mutex (misc_mtx)
> in misc_open to avoid this block.
> It also make code more efficiency.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhang Dongxing <dongxing.zhang@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: xiaoming wang <xiaoming.wang@intel.com>
> ---
> drivers/char/misc.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Please fix up your "From:" line to match your signed-off-by line, as I
can't take it the way you sent this.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-09 22:47 UTC|newest]
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2015-01-06 0:34 xiaomin1
2015-01-05 13:58 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2015-01-09 22:47 ` Greg KH [this message]
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2015-01-05 9:14 Hillf Danton
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