On 08/04/2010 11:53 PM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
quoted text
> On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:39:50 -0500
> Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com> 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 <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
> 
> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
> 
> But a nitpick (see below)
> 
>> ---
>>  drivers/base/memory.c |    9 +++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>>
>> Index: linux-2.6/drivers/base/memory.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/base/memory.c	2010-08-02 13:35:00.000000000 -0500
>> +++ linux-2.6/drivers/base/memory.c	2010-08-02 13:45:34.000000000 -0500
>> @@ -27,6 +27,8 @@
>>  #include <asm/atomic.h>
>>  #include <asm/uaccess.h>
>>  
>> +static struct mutex mem_sysfs_mutex;
>> +
> 
> For static symbol of mutex, we usually do
> 	static DEFINE_MUTEX(mem_sysfs_mutex);
> 
> Then, extra calls of mutex_init() is not required.
> 

ok,  fixed in the next version of the patches.

-Nathan
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