Commit 9551bfba authored by Bryan Thompson's avatar Bryan Thompson Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

staging: unisys: visorchannel: Describe spinlocks in VISORCHANNEL_Tag struct

Add comments indicating the requirements and use of the insert_lock and
remove_lock in the VISORCHANNEL_Tag structure.
Signed-off-by: default avatarBryan Thompson <bryan.thompson@unisys.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Romer <benjamin.romer@unisys.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 4c67da30
......@@ -33,9 +33,10 @@ struct VISORCHANNEL_Tag {
struct channel_header chan_hdr;
uuid_le guid;
ulong size;
BOOL needs_lock;
spinlock_t insert_lock;
spinlock_t remove_lock;
BOOL needs_lock; /* channel creator knows if more than one
* thread will be inserting or removing */
spinlock_t insert_lock; /* protect head writes in chan_hdr */
spinlock_t remove_lock; /* protect tail writes in chan_hdr */
struct {
struct signal_queue_header req_queue;
......
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