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| H A D | dm.c | diff f32c10b09940cffc3620ce111315ec44343fd3ca Mon Jun 26 02:27:22 CDT 2006 Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> [PATCH] dm: change minor_lock to spinlock
While removing a device, another another thread might attempt to resurrect it.
This patch replaces the _minor_lock mutex with a spinlock and uses
atomic_dec_and_lock() to serialize reference counting in dm_put().
[akpm: too late for 2.6.17 - suitable for 2.6.17.x after it has settled]
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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