Re: [PATCH 0/6] Push down BKL into device drivers
From: John Kacur
Date: Tue Apr 27 2010 - 05:14:55 EST
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> This is half the work of getting rid of the BKL in
> the ioctl file operation, the rest in arch/ and fs/
> still needs to be done, maybe two more hours of
> work (for someone else than me ;-)).
>
> Pushdown is straightforward. In many cases, it's
> rather obvious that the BKL is not needed at all,
> but let's not mix the removal with the pushdown.
Hi Arnd. These pushdowns conflicted with Linus's renaming.
In addition I found a few errors due to the change to
unlocked_ioctl.
I will resubmit fixes to these problems in a new mail.
Thanks
>
> Arnd Bergmann (6):
> dvb: push down BKL into ioctl functions
> scsi: push down BKL into ioctl functions
> isdn: push down BKL into ioctl functions
> staging: push down BKL into ioctl functions
> v4l: always use unlocked_ioctl
> drivers: push down BKL into various drivers
>
> drivers/block/pktcdvd.c | 13 ++++++--
> drivers/char/apm-emulation.c | 8 +++--
> drivers/char/applicom.c | 13 +++++---
> drivers/char/ds1620.c | 16 ++++++++-
> drivers/char/dtlk.c | 15 +++++----
> drivers/char/generic_nvram.c | 17 ++++++++--
> drivers/char/genrtc.c | 16 ++++++++-
> drivers/char/hpet.c | 14 +++++---
> drivers/char/i8k.c | 21 ++++++++++--
> drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c | 26 +++++++++++++---
> drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c | 17 +++++++++-
> drivers/char/nvram.c | 10 ++++--
> drivers/char/nwflash.c | 7 +++-
> drivers/char/raw.c | 42 ++++++++++++++-----------
> drivers/hwmon/fschmd.c | 9 +++--
> drivers/hwmon/w83793.c | 10 ++++--
> drivers/input/misc/hp_sdc_rtc.c | 34 ++++++++++++++------
> drivers/isdn/capi/capi.c | 17 ++++++++--
> drivers/isdn/divert/divert_procfs.c | 19 ++++++++++--
> drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_common.c | 18 +++++++++--
> drivers/isdn/mISDN/timerdev.c | 10 ++++--
> drivers/macintosh/nvram.c | 2 +-
> drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c | 17 ++++++++--
> drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dmxdev.c | 31 +++++++++++++-----
> drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_ca_en50221.c | 17 +++++++---
> drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c | 30 +++++++++---------
> drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_net.c | 15 +++++++--
> drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.c | 17 +++++++----
> drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.h | 11 ++----
> drivers/media/dvb/firewire/firedtv-ci.c | 5 +--
> drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/av7110.c | 4 +-
> drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/av7110_av.c | 8 ++--
> drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/av7110_ca.c | 5 +--
> drivers/media/video/v4l2-dev.c | 17 ++++++++--
> drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c | 19 ++++++++---
> drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_ioctl.c | 17 ++++++++--
> drivers/rtc/rtc-m41t80.c | 16 ++++++++-
> drivers/sbus/char/openprom.c | 44 +++++++++++++++-----------
> drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.c | 10 ++++--
> drivers/scsi/3w-sas.c | 7 +++-
> drivers/scsi/3w-xxxx.c | 10 ++++--
> drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c | 11 +++++--
> drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c | 20 ++++++++++--
> drivers/scsi/gdth.c | 20 +++++++++---
> drivers/scsi/megaraid.c | 20 ++++++++++--
> drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.c | 22 ++++++++++---
> drivers/scsi/osst.c | 14 ++++++--
> drivers/scsi/sg.c | 17 ++++++++--
> drivers/staging/crystalhd/crystalhd_lnx.c | 13 +++++--
> drivers/staging/dt3155/dt3155_drv.c | 24 +++++++++++----
> drivers/staging/poch/poch.c | 17 +++++++++-
> drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c | 18 +++++++++--
> drivers/usb/mon/mon_bin.c | 23 ++++++++++----
> drivers/usb/mon/mon_stat.c | 3 +-
> 54 files changed, 631 insertions(+), 245 deletions(-)
>
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