ACPICA: Fix AcpiWalkNamespace race condition with table unload
authorBob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Mon, 9 Mar 2009 08:31:04 +0000 (16:31 +0800)
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:11:02 +0000 (12:11 -0400)
commit8a335a2331c72e60c6b3ef09b2dedd3ba00da1b1
treef538a4f68499dab0d59e253bc55a5cf4aff66ec1
parentaab61b676a024d3527f6201e2b31285a96f7a1d2
ACPICA: Fix AcpiWalkNamespace race condition with table unload

Added a reader/writer locking mechanism to allow multiple
concurrent namespace walks (readers), but a dynamic table unload
will have exclusive access to the namespace. This fixes a problem
where a table unload could delete the portion of the namespace that
is currently being examined by a walk.  Adds a new file, utlock.c
that implements the reader/writer lock mechanism. ACPICA BZ 749.

http://www.acpica.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=749

Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
drivers/acpi/acpica/Makefile
drivers/acpi/acpica/acglobal.h
drivers/acpi/acpica/aclocal.h
drivers/acpi/acpica/actables.h
drivers/acpi/acpica/acutils.h
drivers/acpi/acpica/dsinit.c
drivers/acpi/acpica/exconfig.c
drivers/acpi/acpica/nsxfeval.c
drivers/acpi/acpica/tbinstal.c
drivers/acpi/acpica/utlock.c [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/acpi/acpica/utmutex.c