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kexec: use a mutex for locking rather than xchg()

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Functionally the same, but more conventional.

Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton 2008-08-15 00:40:27 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 3122c33119
commit 8c5a1cf0ad
1 changed files with 10 additions and 24 deletions
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kernel/kexec.c
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@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/kexec.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/list.h>
#include <linux/highmem.h>
#include <linux/syscalls.h>
@ -924,19 +924,14 @@ static int kimage_load_segment(struct kimage *image,
*/
struct kimage *kexec_image;
struct kimage *kexec_crash_image;
/*
* A home grown binary mutex.
* Nothing can wait so this mutex is safe to use
* in interrupt context :)
*/
static int kexec_lock;
static DEFINE_MUTEX(kexec_mutex);
asmlinkage long sys_kexec_load(unsigned long entry, unsigned long nr_segments,
struct kexec_segment __user *segments,
unsigned long flags)
{
struct kimage **dest_image, *image;
int locked;
int result;
/* We only trust the superuser with rebooting the system. */
@ -972,8 +967,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_kexec_load(unsigned long entry, unsigned long nr_segments,
*
* KISS: always take the mutex.
*/
locked = xchg(&kexec_lock, 1);
if (locked)
if (!mutex_trylock(&kexec_mutex))
return -EBUSY;
dest_image = &kexec_image;
@ -1015,8 +1009,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_kexec_load(unsigned long entry, unsigned long nr_segments,
image = xchg(dest_image, image);
out:
locked = xchg(&kexec_lock, 0); /* Release the mutex */
BUG_ON(!locked);
mutex_unlock(&kexec_mutex);
kimage_free(image);
return result;
@ -1063,10 +1056,7 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_kexec_load(unsigned long entry,
void crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
int locked;
/* Take the kexec_lock here to prevent sys_kexec_load
/* Take the kexec_mutex here to prevent sys_kexec_load
* running on one cpu from replacing the crash kernel
* we are using after a panic on a different cpu.
*
@ -1074,8 +1064,7 @@ void crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs)
* of memory the xchg(&kexec_crash_image) would be
* sufficient. But since I reuse the memory...
*/
locked = xchg(&kexec_lock, 1);
if (!locked) {
if (mutex_trylock(&kexec_mutex)) {
if (kexec_crash_image) {
struct pt_regs fixed_regs;
crash_setup_regs(&fixed_regs, regs);
@ -1083,8 +1072,7 @@ void crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs)
machine_crash_shutdown(&fixed_regs);
machine_kexec(kexec_crash_image);
}
locked = xchg(&kexec_lock, 0);
BUG_ON(!locked);
mutex_unlock(&kexec_mutex);
}
}
@ -1434,7 +1422,7 @@ int kernel_kexec(void)
{
int error = 0;
if (xchg(&kexec_lock, 1))
if (!mutex_trylock(&kexec_mutex))
return -EBUSY;
if (!kexec_image) {
error = -EINVAL;
@ -1498,8 +1486,6 @@ int kernel_kexec(void)
#endif
Unlock:
if (!xchg(&kexec_lock, 0))
BUG();
mutex_unlock(&kexec_mutex);
return error;
}