Change DEFINE_SEMAPHORE() to take a number argument
Fundamentally semaphores are a counted primitive, but DEFINE_SEMAPHORE() does not expose this and explicitly creates a binary semaphore. Change DEFINE_SEMAPHORE() to take a number argument and use that in the few places that open-coded it using __SEMAPHORE_INITIALIZER(). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> [mcgrof: add some tribal knowledge about why some folks prefer binary sempahores over mutexes] Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
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