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    [PATCH] ipmi: use refcount in message handler · 393d2cc3
    Corey Minyard authored
    
    
    This patch is rather large, but it really can't be done in smaller chunks
    easily and I believe it is an important change.  This has been out and tested
    for a while in the latest IPMI driver release.  There are no functional
    changes, just changes as necessary to convert the locking over (and a few
    minor style updates).
    
    The IPMI driver uses read/write locks to ensure that things exist while they
    are in use.  This is bad from a number of points of view.  This patch removes
    the rwlocks and uses refcounts and RCU lists to manage what the locks did.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarCorey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
    Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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