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authorAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>2010-01-08 20:56:19 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-03-03 01:54:08 +0300
commit62e299e61a6ffe8131fa85a984c3058b68586f5d (patch)
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USB: change locking for device-level autosuspend
This patch (as1323) changes the locking requirements for usb_autosuspend_device(), usb_autoresume_device(), and usb_try_autosuspend_device(). This isn't a very important change; mainly it's meant to make the locking more uniform. The most tricky part of the patch involves changes to usbdev_open(). To avoid an ABBA locking problem, it was necessary to reduce the region protected by usbfs_mutex. Since that mutex now protects only against simultaneous open and remove, this posed no difficulty -- its scope was larger than necessary. And it turns out that usbfs_mutex is no longer needed in usbdev_release() at all. The list of usbfs "ps" structures is now protected by the device lock instead of by usbfs_mutex. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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