linux-kernel - Re: [patch 22/28] macintosh: Remove BKL from ans-lcd

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Date:	Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:02:02 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Vincent Sanders <vince@...tec.co.uk>,
	John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org
Subject: Re: [patch 22/28] macintosh: Remove BKL from ans-lcd

On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 15:37 +0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> plain text document attachment (drivers-mac-ans-lcd-remove-bkl.patch)
> The ans-lcd driver got the cycle_kernel_lock() in anslcd_open() from
> the BKL pushdown and it still uses the locked ioctl.
> 
> The BKL serialization in this driver is more than obscure and
> definitely does not cover all possible corner cases. Protect the
> access to the hardware with a local mutex and get rid of BKL and
> locked ioctl.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
> Cc: linuxppc-dev@...abs.org
> ---

While I -do- have an ANS ... it's rusting in the back of my garage and I
really don't have time nor space to set it up and get it back to booting
shape :-) (It's a pretty huge thing)

Patch looks good, so if it builds...

Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>

Cheers,
Ben.

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