From 613655fa39ff6957754fa8ceb8559980920eb8ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnd Bergmann Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 14:28:52 +0200 Subject: drivers: autoconvert trivial BKL users to private mutex All these files use the big kernel lock in a trivial way to serialize their private file operations, typically resulting from an earlier semi-automatic pushdown from VFS. None of these drivers appears to want to lock against other code, and they all use the BKL as the top-level lock in their file operations, meaning that there is no lock-order inversion problem. Consequently, we can remove the BKL completely, replacing it with a per-file mutex in every case. Using a scripted approach means we can avoid typos. These drivers do not seem to be under active maintainance from my brief investigation. Apologies to those maintainers that I have missed. file=$1 name=$2 if grep -q lock_kernel ${file} ; then if grep -q 'include.*linux.mutex.h' ${file} ; then sed -i '/include.*/d' ${file} else sed -i 's/include.*.*$/include /g' ${file} fi sed -i ${file} \ -e "/^#include.*linux.mutex.h/,$ { 1,/^\(static\|int\|long\)/ { /^\(static\|int\|long\)/istatic DEFINE_MUTEX(${name}_mutex); } }" \ -e "s/\(un\)*lock_kernel\>[ ]*()/mutex_\1lock(\&${name}_mutex)/g" \ -e '/[ ]*cycle_kernel_lock();/d' else sed -i -e '/include.*\/d' ${file} \ -e '/cycle_kernel_lock()/d' fi Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann --- drivers/char/nvram.c | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/char/nvram.c') diff --git a/drivers/char/nvram.c b/drivers/char/nvram.c index 66d2917b003f..166f1e7aaa7e 100644 --- a/drivers/char/nvram.c +++ b/drivers/char/nvram.c @@ -109,10 +109,11 @@ #include #include #include -#include +#include #include +static DEFINE_MUTEX(nvram_mutex); static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(nvram_state_lock); static int nvram_open_cnt; /* #times opened */ static int nvram_open_mode; /* special open modes */ @@ -308,7 +309,7 @@ static long nvram_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) return -EACCES; - lock_kernel(); + mutex_lock(&nvram_mutex); spin_lock_irq(&rtc_lock); for (i = 0; i < NVRAM_BYTES; ++i) @@ -316,7 +317,7 @@ static long nvram_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, __nvram_set_checksum(); spin_unlock_irq(&rtc_lock); - unlock_kernel(); + mutex_unlock(&nvram_mutex); return 0; case NVRAM_SETCKS: @@ -325,11 +326,11 @@ static long nvram_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) return -EACCES; - lock_kernel(); + mutex_lock(&nvram_mutex); spin_lock_irq(&rtc_lock); __nvram_set_checksum(); spin_unlock_irq(&rtc_lock); - unlock_kernel(); + mutex_unlock(&nvram_mutex); return 0; default: -- cgit v1.2.1