[v4,0/2] modules/kmod: replace implementation with a sempahore

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Luis Chamberlain April 14, 2023, 5:16 p.m. UTC

Changes on this v4:

  o Really add Matthew Wilcox' preferred tribal knowledge docs
  o Add all the pending tags

Changes on v3:

  o Tons of spell checks thanks to Miroslav Benes
  o Fixed a stupid bug where I was using the timeout without HZ as
    reported by Miroslav Benes
  o Enanced the tribal knowledge docs for the semaphore Vs mutex
    considerations folks might make as suggested by Matthew Wilcox
  o Added tags for patches   

Changes on v2:                                                                                                                                                                                   
  o split the series up into its own
  o adopt Peter's patch and extend it with some documentation as to why
    some folks stick to binary semaphores over mutexes
  o modify kmod.c to use the preferred declaration

Luis Chamberlain (1):
  modules/kmod: replace implementation with a semaphore

Peter Zijlstra (1):
  Change DEFINE_SEMAPHORE() to take a number argument

 arch/mips/cavium-octeon/setup.c               |  2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c                   |  2 +-
 drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c       |  2 +-
 drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c                   |  2 +-
 drivers/macintosh/adb.c                       |  2 +-
 .../net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.c  |  2 +-
 drivers/platform/x86/intel/ifs/sysfs.c        |  2 +-
 drivers/scsi/esas2r/esas2r_ioctl.c            |  2 +-
 .../interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c           |  2 +-
 include/linux/semaphore.h                     | 10 +++++--
 kernel/module/kmod.c                          | 26 +++++--------------
 kernel/printk/printk.c                        |  2 +-
 net/rxrpc/call_object.c                       |  6 ++---
 13 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)