Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | "K. Y. Srinivasan" <> | Subject | [PATCH 1/2] Drivers: base: core: Export functions to lock/unlock device hotplug lock | Date | Fri, 5 Dec 2014 16:41:37 -0800 |
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The Hyper-V balloon driver does memory hot-add. The device_hotplug_lock is designed to address AB BA deadlock issues between the hot-add path and the sysfs path. Export the APIs to acquire and release the device_hotplug_lock for use by loadable modules that want to hot-add memory or CPU.
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> --- drivers/base/core.c | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c index 97e2baf..b3073af 100644 --- a/drivers/base/core.c +++ b/drivers/base/core.c @@ -55,11 +55,13 @@ void lock_device_hotplug(void) { mutex_lock(&device_hotplug_lock); } +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(lock_device_hotplug); void unlock_device_hotplug(void) { mutex_unlock(&device_hotplug_lock); } +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unlock_device_hotplug); int lock_device_hotplug_sysfs(void) { -- 1.7.4.1
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