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. file=$1 name=$2 if grep -q lock_kernel ${file} ; then if grep -q 'include.*linux.mutex.h' ${file} ; then sed -i '/include.*<linux\/smp_lock.h>/d' ${file} else sed -i 's/include.*<linux\/smp_lock.h>.*$/include <linux\/mutex.h>/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.*\<smp_lock.h\>/d' ${file} \ -e '/cycle_kernel_lock()/d' fi Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx> Cc: devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/staging/crystalhd/crystalhd_lnx.c | 9 +++++---- drivers/staging/dt3155/dt3155_drv.c | 6 ++++-- drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c | 7 ++++--- 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/crystalhd/crystalhd_lnx.c b/drivers/staging/crystalhd/crystalhd_lnx.c index a4ec891..e4b9caa 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/crystalhd/crystalhd_lnx.c +++ b/drivers/staging/crystalhd/crystalhd_lnx.c @@ -15,11 +15,12 @@ along with this driver. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. ***************************************************************************/ -#include <linux/smp_lock.h> +#include <linux/mutex.h> #include <linux/slab.h> #include "crystalhd_lnx.h" +static DEFINE_MUTEX(chd_dec_mutex); static struct class *crystalhd_class; static struct crystalhd_adp *g_adp_info; @@ -279,16 +280,16 @@ static long chd_dec_ioctl(struct file *fd, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long ua) return -ENODATA; } - lock_kernel(); + mutex_lock(&chd_dec_mutex); cproc = crystalhd_get_cmd_proc(&adp->cmds, cmd, uc); if (!cproc) { BCMLOG_ERR("Unhandled command: %d\n", cmd); - unlock_kernel(); + mutex_unlock(&chd_dec_mutex); return -EINVAL; } ret = chd_dec_api_cmd(adp, ua, uc->uid, cmd, cproc); - unlock_kernel(); + mutex_unlock(&chd_dec_mutex); return ret; } diff --git a/drivers/staging/dt3155/dt3155_drv.c b/drivers/staging/dt3155/dt3155_drv.c index 40ef97f..fdfde1f 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/dt3155/dt3155_drv.c +++ b/drivers/staging/dt3155/dt3155_drv.c @@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ extern void printques(int); #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/interrupt.h> +#include <linux/mutex.h> #include <linux/pci.h> #include <linux/types.h> #include <linux/poll.h> @@ -78,6 +79,7 @@ extern void printques(int); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); /* Error variable. Zero means no error. */ +static DEFINE_MUTEX(dt3155_mutex); int dt3155_errno = 0; #ifndef PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_7116 @@ -841,9 +843,9 @@ dt3155_unlocked_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) { int ret; - lock_kernel(); + mutex_lock(&dt3155_mutex); ret = dt3155_ioctl(file->f_path.dentry->d_inode, file, cmd, arg); - unlock_kernel(); + mutex_unlock(&dt3155_mutex); return ret; } diff --git a/drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c b/drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c index bc16fc0..73a67a8 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c +++ b/drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ #include <linux/slab.h> #include <linux/spinlock.h> #include <linux/syscalls.h> -#include <linux/smp_lock.h> +#include <linux/mutex.h> #include <linux/types.h> #include <asm/io.h> @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ #include "../vme.h" #include "vme_user.h" +static DEFINE_MUTEX(vme_user_mutex); static char driver_name[] = "vme_user"; static int bus[USER_BUS_MAX]; @@ -560,9 +561,9 @@ vme_user_unlocked_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) { int ret; - lock_kernel(); + mutex_lock(&vme_user_mutex); ret = vme_user_ioctl(file->f_path.dentry->d_inode, file, cmd, arg); - unlock_kernel(); + mutex_unlock(&vme_user_mutex); return ret; } -- 1.7.1 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel