* Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@xxxxxxx> wrote: > The Machine check handler registers ioctl handler that is called with > the BKL held. Changing to register unlocked_ioctl instead. Also mce > ioctl handler does not seem to need any lock protection. > > Change the Machine check handler to use unlocked_ioctl instead of > ioctl handler. Also the mce ioctl handler does not need any lock > protection. thanks, applied to x86.git. Mcelog functionality uses cmpxchg so no need for the BKL there. The ioctl still being BKL is purely historic and it was never relied on. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
