On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 05:49:34PM +0200, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> drivers/char/tty_io.c uses a semaphore as mutex. use the mutex API
> instead of the (binary) semaphore

This looks like it should be a spinlock:

> -             down(&allocated_ptys_lock);
> +             mutex_lock(&allocated_ptys_lock);
>               idr_remove(&allocated_ptys, idx);
> -             up(&allocated_ptys_lock);
> +             mutex_unlock(&allocated_ptys_lock);

idr_remove is a quick operation that doesn't sleep.

> @@ -2639,24 +2639,24 @@ static int ptmx_open(struct inode * inode, struct 
> file * filp)
>       nonseekable_open(inode, filp);
>  
>       /* find a device that is not in use. */
> -     down(&allocated_ptys_lock);
> +     mutex_lock(&allocated_ptys_lock);
>       if (!idr_pre_get(&allocated_ptys, GFP_KERNEL)) {
> -             up(&allocated_ptys_lock);

The idr_pre_get should be moved out of the lock, that's the whole
point for it's existance..

> +             mutex_unlock(&allocated_ptys_lock);
>               return -ENOMEM;
>       }
>       idr_ret = idr_get_new(&allocated_ptys, NULL, &index);
>       if (idr_ret < 0) {
> -             up(&allocated_ptys_lock);
> +             mutex_unlock(&allocated_ptys_lock);
>               if (idr_ret == -EAGAIN)
>                       return -ENOMEM;
>               return -EIO;
>       }
>       if (index >= pty_limit) {
>               idr_remove(&allocated_ptys, index);
> -             up(&allocated_ptys_lock);
> +             mutex_unlock(&allocated_ptys_lock);
>               return -EIO;
>       }
> -     up(&allocated_ptys_lock);
> +     mutex_unlock(&allocated_ptys_lock);

And idr_get_new is another quick, non-blocking operation.

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