From: John Wolfe <jwolfe@vmware.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2020 20:29:03 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: Common header file change not applicable to open-vm-tools.
X-Git-Tag: stable-11.3.0~262
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=85004da3412c57a5ca40b6b4b4a087fe4a3e6591;p=thirdparty%2Fopen-vm-tools.git

Common header file change not applicable to open-vm-tools.
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diff --git a/open-vm-tools/lib/include/mutexRankLib.h b/open-vm-tools/lib/include/mutexRankLib.h
index 2d22cb4d6..8d2ca13f7 100644
--- a/open-vm-tools/lib/include/mutexRankLib.h
+++ b/open-vm-tools/lib/include/mutexRankLib.h
@@ -81,10 +81,10 @@ extern "C" {
  * (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.
+ * should have a rank greater than RANK_vigorOfflineLock. IO filter lock ranks
+ * should also be lower than RANK_filtLibPollLock because this allows
+ * VMIOF/filtlib APIs that hold filtLibPollLock to be invoked while holding an
+ * IO filter lock.
  */
 #define RANK_ioFiltersBase            (RANK_libLockBase + 0x4420)