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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2012-10-31 10:42:29 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2013-02-21 11:06:38 -0300
commit80cc7d87d5eb34375f916d282450a0906a8ead60 (patch)
treebcdec36f2945da29b13955d821d5a786f1f78139 /fs/file.c
parentc2c93dbc97622e26dc19edc71e50ebaa996d7804 (diff)
edac: lock module owner to avoid error report conflicts
APEI GHES and i7core_edac/sb_edac currently can be loaded at the same time, but those are Highlander modules: "There can be only one". There are two reasons for that: 1) Each driver assumes that it is the only one registering at the EDAC core, as it is driver's responsibility to number the memory controllers, and all of them start from 0; 2) If BIOS is handling the memory errors, the OS can't also be doing it, as one will mangle with the other. So, we need to add an module owner's lock at the EDAC core, in order to avoid having two different modules handling memory errors at the same time. The best way for doing this lock seems to use the driver's name, as this is unique, and won't require changes on every driver. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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