id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	field_blocks	field_dependson	field_seealso
384	Synchronize device tree transitions	Jiri Svoboda		"Operations on the device tree (in Devman) requite fine-grained synchronization. Simple mutex or rw-locking is too cumbersome, some operations can be performed while others are in progress.

Currently there is one global RW lock for the entire three which is held for a short time when actual modifications of tree topology take place.

When we are onlining or offlining (or removing) a node in one fibril, we don't want another fibril to attempt to online/offline/remove the same node concurrently. Currently there is no mechanism to prevent it. These transitions are currently not tracked via states.

The proposed solution: add appropriate transitional states and a method to wait for the (function/device?) node to enter a stable (non-transitional) state. This can be achieved by introducing a CV for each node. Since CVs operate in conjunction with mutexes, not RW-locks, the global tree RW lock needs to be replaced with global mutex. This should be acceptable - since the lock is always held for a short time and not on performance-sensitive code paths, not much contention is expected.
"	defect	closed	major	0.6.0	helenos/unspecified	mainline	fixed					#389