Add a new fops entry point to allow fasync without BKL. While it's arguably unclear this entry point is called often enough for it really matters it was still relatively easy to do. And there are far less async users in the tree than ioctls so it's likely they can be all converted eventually and then the non unlocked async entry point could be dropped. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> --- Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 5 ++++- fs/fcntl.c | 6 +++++- fs/ioctl.c | 5 ++++- include/linux/fs.h | 1 + 4 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: linux/fs/fcntl.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/fs/fcntl.c +++ linux/fs/fcntl.c @@ -240,11 +240,15 @@ static int setfl(int fd, struct file * f lock_kernel(); if ((arg ^ filp->f_flags) & FASYNC) { - if (filp->f_op && filp->f_op->fasync) { + if (filp->f_op && filp->f_op->unlocked_fasync) + error = filp->f_op->unlocked_fasync(fd, filp, + !!(arg & FASYNC)); + else if (filp->f_op && filp->f_op->fasync) { error = filp->f_op->fasync(fd, filp, (arg & FASYNC) != 0); if (error < 0) goto out; } + /* AK: no else error = -EINVAL here? */ } filp->f_flags = (arg & SETFL_MASK) | (filp->f_flags & ~SETFL_MASK); Index: linux/fs/ioctl.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/fs/ioctl.c +++ linux/fs/ioctl.c @@ -118,7 +118,10 @@ int vfs_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigne /* Did FASYNC state change ? */ if ((flag ^ filp->f_flags) & FASYNC) { - if (filp->f_op && filp->f_op->fasync) { + if (filp->f_op && filp->f_op->unlocked_fasync) + error = filp->f_op->unlocked_fasync(fd, + filp, on); + else if (filp->f_op && filp->f_op->fasync) { lock_kernel(); error = filp->f_op->fasync(fd, filp, on); unlock_kernel(); Index: linux/include/linux/fs.h =================================================================== --- linux.orig/include/linux/fs.h +++ linux/include/linux/fs.h @@ -1179,6 +1179,7 @@ struct file_operations { int (*fsync) (struct file *, struct dentry *, int datasync); int (*aio_fsync) (struct kiocb *, int datasync); int (*fasync) (int, struct file *, int); + int (*unlocked_fasync) (int, struct file *, int); int (*lock) (struct file *, int, struct file_lock *); ssize_t (*sendpage) (struct file *, struct page *, int, size_t, loff_t *, int); unsigned long (*get_unmapped_area)(struct file *, unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long); Index: linux/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt =================================================================== --- linux.orig/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ linux/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -769,6 +769,7 @@ struct file_operations { int (*fsync) (struct file *, struct dentry *, int datasync); int (*aio_fsync) (struct kiocb *, int datasync); int (*fasync) (int, struct file *, int); + int (*unlocked_fasync) (int, struct file *, int); int (*lock) (struct file *, int, struct file_lock *); ssize_t (*readv) (struct file *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t *); ssize_t (*writev) (struct file *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t *); @@ -828,7 +829,9 @@ otherwise noted. fsync: called by the fsync(2) system call fasync: called by the fcntl(2) system call when asynchronous - (non-blocking) mode is enabled for a file + (non-blocking) mode is enabled for a file. BKL hold + + unlocked_fasync: like fasync, but without BKL lock: called by the fcntl(2) system call for F_GETLK, F_SETLK, and F_SETLKW commands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html