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authorBryan Thompson <bryan.thompson@unisys.com>2014-12-05 17:09:24 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-01-09 17:32:35 -0800
commit9551bfba917a17f850b5887474c56b8772417e70 (patch)
treeac167d594ebbe8892e4ef0659acc898c432775f1
parent4c67da3083c80d9cdf172d99c942bbddfaeae529 (diff)
staging: unisys: visorchannel: Describe spinlocks in VISORCHANNEL_Tag struct
Add comments indicating the requirements and use of the insert_lock and remove_lock in the VISORCHANNEL_Tag structure. Signed-off-by: Bryan Thompson <bryan.thompson@unisys.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Romer <benjamin.romer@unisys.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/unisys/visorchannel/visorchannel_funcs.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/unisys/visorchannel/visorchannel_funcs.c b/drivers/staging/unisys/visorchannel/visorchannel_funcs.c
index 1568b95ded47..1ce25c237d39 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/unisys/visorchannel/visorchannel_funcs.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/unisys/visorchannel/visorchannel_funcs.c
@@ -33,9 +33,10 @@ struct VISORCHANNEL_Tag {
struct channel_header chan_hdr;
uuid_le guid;
ulong size;
- BOOL needs_lock;
- spinlock_t insert_lock;
- spinlock_t remove_lock;
+ BOOL needs_lock; /* channel creator knows if more than one
+ * thread will be inserting or removing */
+ spinlock_t insert_lock; /* protect head writes in chan_hdr */
+ spinlock_t remove_lock; /* protect tail writes in chan_hdr */
struct {
struct signal_queue_header req_queue;