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Revision eb4400e3a040b90a3ad805b01fcbc99a5f615c8f authored by Maciej Sosnowski on 03 February 2009, 07:26:57 UTC, committed by David S. Miller on 03 February 2009, 07:26:57 UTC 
dca: redesign locks to fix deadlocks
 
Change spin_locks to irqsave to prevent dead-locks.
Protect adding and deleting to/from dca_providers list.
Drop the lock during dca_sysfs_add_req() and dca_sysfs_remove_req() calls
as they might sleep (use GFP_KERNEL allocation).

Signed-off-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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check_signature.c 
#include <linux/io.h>
#include <linux/module.h>

/**
 *	check_signature		-	find BIOS signatures
 *	@io_addr: mmio address to check
 *	@signature:  signature block
 *	@length: length of signature
 *
 *	Perform a signature comparison with the mmio address io_addr. This
 *	address should have been obtained by ioremap.
 *	Returns 1 on a match.
 */

int check_signature(const volatile void __iomem *io_addr,
			const unsigned char *signature, int length)
{
	while (length--) {
		if (readb(io_addr) != *signature)
			return 0;
		io_addr++;
		signature++;
	}
	return 1;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(check_signature);
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