Re: [PATCH] device: separate all subsys mutexes (was: Re: [BUG]potential deadlock led by cpu_hotplug lock (memcg involved))

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Tue Mar 12 2013 - 12:13:23 EST


On Tue 12-03-13 16:28:25, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 14:05 +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > @@ -111,17 +111,17 @@ struct bus_type {
> > struct iommu_ops *iommu_ops;
> >
> > struct subsys_private *p;
> > + struct lock_class_key __key;
> > };
>
> Is struct bus_type constrained to static storage or can people go an
> allocate this stuff dynamically?

All of them should be static, at least this is what my cscope says. I
might have missed something of course - I am not very familiar with this
area to be 100% sure.

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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