From bb93e3a52f8db7210258a1a2134cced0b78a46e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnd Bergmann Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 00:10:15 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] block: add unlocked_ioctl support for block devices This patch allows block device drivers to convert their ioctl functions to unlocked_ioctl() like character devices and other subsystems. All functions that were called with the BKL held before are still used that way, but I would not be surprised if it could be removed from the ioctl functions in drivers/block/ioctl.c themselves. As a side note, I found that compat_blkdev_ioctl() acquires the BKL as well, which looks like a bug. I have checked that every user of disk->fops->compat_ioctl() in the current git tree gets the BKL itself, so it could easily be removed from compat_blkdev_ioctl(). Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/fs.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 3622e952e98c..9b1278e21279 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -884,6 +884,7 @@ struct block_device_operations { int (*open) (struct inode *, struct file *); int (*release) (struct inode *, struct file *); int (*ioctl) (struct inode *, struct file *, unsigned, unsigned long); + long (*unlocked_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned, unsigned long); long (*compat_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned, unsigned long); int (*media_changed) (struct gendisk *); int (*revalidate_disk) (struct gendisk *); -- cgit v1.2.1