printk: Make console_sem a semaphore not a pseudo mutex
It needs to be investigated whether it can be replaced by a real
mutex, but that needs more thought.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100907125057.179587334@linutronix.de>
diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index 8fe465a..2531017 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
* provides serialisation for access to the entire console
* driver system.
*/
-static DECLARE_MUTEX(console_sem);
+static DEFINE_SEMAPHORE(console_sem);
struct console *console_drivers;
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(console_drivers);
@@ -556,7 +556,7 @@
/* If a crash is occurring, make sure we can't deadlock */
spin_lock_init(&logbuf_lock);
/* And make sure that we print immediately */
- init_MUTEX(&console_sem);
+ sema_init(&console_sem, 1);
}
#if defined(CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME)
