snapshot: Use pm_mutex for mutual exclusion
We can avoid taking the BKL in snapshot_ioctl() if pm_mutex is used to prevent the ioctls from being executed concurrently. In addition, although it is only possible to open /dev/snapshot once, the task which has done that may spawn a child that will inherit the open descriptor, so in theory they can call snapshot_write(), snapshot_read() and snapshot_release() concurrently. pm_mutex can also be used for mutual exclusion in such cases. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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