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authorUlrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>2015-04-14 15:44:01 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-04-14 16:48:58 -0700
commitf54c2274f5515da6bae779c7340cd0dc69d0dd8d (patch)
treeafc4103494ae86e63d264f87ca523f7cdbce62fa /kernel
parenta0c9cbb93da9b9a0e00907a4a5d2e5f1fed86350 (diff)
watchdog: move definition of 'watchdog_proc_mutex' outside of proc_dowatchdog()
This series removes proc_dowatchdog(). Since multiple new functions need the 'watchdog_proc_mutex' to serialize access to the watchdog parameters in /proc/sys/kernel, move the mutex outside of any function. Signed-off-by: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/watchdog.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
index dcc4990097a2..28c833b42124 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -701,6 +701,8 @@ static int proc_watchdog_update(void)
}
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(watchdog_proc_mutex);
+
/*
* proc handler for /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog,watchdog_thresh
*/
@@ -710,7 +712,6 @@ int proc_dowatchdog(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
{
int err, old_thresh, old_enabled;
bool old_hardlockup;
- static DEFINE_MUTEX(watchdog_proc_mutex);
mutex_lock(&watchdog_proc_mutex);
old_thresh = ACCESS_ONCE(watchdog_thresh);