use mutex instead of semaphore in virtual console driver
The virtual console driver uses a semaphore as mutex. Use the mutex API
instead of the (binary) semaphore.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/char/vt.c b/drivers/char/vt.c
index 0edbbc3..bbd9fc4 100644
--- a/drivers/char/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/char/vt.c
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/console.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/vt_kern.h>
#include <linux/selection.h>
#include <linux/tiocl.h>
@@ -1952,7 +1953,7 @@
* kernel memory allocation is available.
*/
char con_buf[CON_BUF_SIZE];
-DECLARE_MUTEX(con_buf_sem);
+DEFINE_MUTEX(con_buf_mtx);
/* is_double_width() is based on the wcwidth() implementation by
* Markus Kuhn -- 2003-05-20 (Unicode 4.0)
@@ -2049,7 +2050,7 @@
/* At this point 'buf' is guaranteed to be a kernel buffer
* and therefore no access to userspace (and therefore sleeping)
- * will be needed. The con_buf_sem serializes all tty based
+ * will be needed. The con_buf_mtx serializes all tty based
* console rendering and vcs write/read operations. We hold
* the console spinlock during the entire write.
*/