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H A Daffinity.hdiff 584d9577ffecdb411f1fd0d160e76a1e141554c8 Tue Sep 06 13:36:18 CEST 2016 Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com> IB/hfi1: Fix locking scheme for affinity settings

Existing locking scheme in affinity.c file using the
&node_affinity.lock spinlock is not very elegant.
We acquire the lock to get hfi1_affinity_node entry,
unlock, and then use the entry without the lock held.
With more functions being added, which access and
modify the entries, this can lead to race conditions.
This patch makes this locking scheme more consistent.
It changes the spinlock to mutex. Since all the code
is executed in a user process context there is no need
for a spinlock. This also allows to keep the lock
not only while we look up for the node affinity entry,
but over the whole section where the entry is being used.

Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Sanchez <sebastian.sanchez@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jianxin Xiong <jianxin.xiong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
H A Daffinity.cdiff 584d9577ffecdb411f1fd0d160e76a1e141554c8 Tue Sep 06 13:36:18 CEST 2016 Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com> IB/hfi1: Fix locking scheme for affinity settings

Existing locking scheme in affinity.c file using the
&node_affinity.lock spinlock is not very elegant.
We acquire the lock to get hfi1_affinity_node entry,
unlock, and then use the entry without the lock held.
With more functions being added, which access and
modify the entries, this can lead to race conditions.
This patch makes this locking scheme more consistent.
It changes the spinlock to mutex. Since all the code
is executed in a user process context there is no need
for a spinlock. This also allows to keep the lock
not only while we look up for the node affinity entry,
but over the whole section where the entry is being used.

Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Sanchez <sebastian.sanchez@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jianxin Xiong <jianxin.xiong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>