Common header file change not applicable to open-vm-tools.

diff --git a/open-vm-tools/lib/include/mutexRankLib.h b/open-vm-tools/lib/include/mutexRankLib.h
index 1cfebd1cea3ec5bfc0222a2daea8fa9ee0802ec6..2d22cb4d6cc3727e2a80f46eb5335de98c46f27c 100644 (file)
--- a/open-vm-tools/lib/include/mutexRankLib.h
+++ b/open-vm-tools/lib/include/mutexRankLib.h
@@ -74,10 +74,24 @@ extern "C" {
 #define RANK_vigorOnlineLock         (RANK_libLockBase + 0x4400)
 #define RANK_vigorOfflineLock        (RANK_libLockBase + 0x4410)
 
+/*
+ * The lock range for IO filters:
+ * [RANK_libLockBase + 0x4420 , RANK_libLockBase + 0x442F]
+ *
+ * (must be > vigor and < filtlib, see PR 2613901)
+ * Inbox filters may need to use lock ranks and these filters can be loaded
+ * under Vigor-Offline. Therefore, any lock used by a filter in its callbacks
+ * should have a rank greater than RANK_vigorOfflineLock. Moreover, filter lock
+ * ranks should be lower than RANK_filtLibPollLock because these filters use
+ * VMIOF APIs and an API like "VMIOF_TimerAdd" which holds RANK_filtLibPollLock,
+ * cannot be invoked while holding a filter lock.
+ */
+#define RANK_ioFiltersBase            (RANK_libLockBase + 0x4420)
+
 /*
  * filtlib (must be > vigor and < disklib and workercmlp, PR 1340298)
  */
-#define RANK_filtLibPollLock         (RANK_vigorOfflineLock + 1)
+#define RANK_filtLibPollLock         (RANK_libLockBase + 0x4430)
 
 /*
  * filtib lock which protects a disk's allocation bitmap state.