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Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 23:53:30 +0100 (CET)
From: John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvram: Fix missing smp_lock.h in nvram
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
wrote:
> 2009/12/6, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>:
> > Linus,
> >
> > Please pull the latest bkl-drivers-for-linus git tree from:
> >
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git
> > bkl-drivers-for-linus
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > tglx
> >
> > ------------------>
> > Frederic Weisbecker (3):
> > mem_class: Drop the bkl from memory_open()
> > nvram: Drop the bkl from nvram_llseek()
>
>
> This breaks the upstream tree. It looks like a patch from Ingo
> that removed the bkl in nvram_open() is missing.
>
> Please consider the following patch:
>
> From 4ce046f911b1cb62b4e952fd599e0d8c3dcd8703 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
> Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 18:31:53 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] nvram: Fix missing smp_lock.h in nvram
>
> The bkl has been removed from nvram_llseek() and smp_lock.h was
> removed because another patch in the same tree zapped the remaining
> usage of bkl in the same file. But this patch must have been excluded
> later, then we still need the smp_lock.h headers for the bkl use
> in nvram_open().
>
> This fixes the following build error:
>
> drivers/char/nvram.c: In function ‘nvram_open’:
> drivers/char/nvram.c:332: erreur: implicit declaration of function ‘lock_kernel’
> drivers/char/nvram.c:339: erreur: implicit declaration of function
> ‘unlock_kernel’
> make[2]: *** [drivers/char/nvram.o] Erreur 1
> make[1]: *** [drivers/char] Erreur 2
> make: *** [drivers] Erreur 2
>
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
> ---
> drivers/char/nvram.c | 1 +
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/nvram.c b/drivers/char/nvram.c
> index 2100a8f..4008e2c 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/nvram.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/nvram.c
> @@ -110,6 +110,7 @@
> #include <linux/spinlock.h>
> #include <linux/io.h>
> #include <linux/uaccess.h>
> +#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
>
> #include <asm/system.h>
>
> --
> 1.6.2.3
> --
Ingo's patch was just probably just misplaced, I'd rather that we
resubmit it than put back smp_lock.h
Plus I have a follow-up one that converts nvram_ioctl to unlocked_ioctl.
>From 19a26663db8c627a29e4aabb39a1c84ef85e9fb3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:48:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] nvram: Drop the BKL from nvram_open()
It's safe to remove the BKL from nvram_open(): there's no open()
versus read() races: nvram_init() is very simple and race-free,
it registers the device then puts it into /proc - there's no
state init to race with.
Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <1255116426-7270-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
---
drivers/char/nvram.c | 3 ---
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/nvram.c b/drivers/char/nvram.c
index 88cee40..740e356 100644
--- a/drivers/char/nvram.c
+++ b/drivers/char/nvram.c
@@ -331,14 +331,12 @@ static int nvram_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file,
static int nvram_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
- lock_kernel();
spin_lock(&nvram_state_lock);
if ((nvram_open_cnt && (file->f_flags & O_EXCL)) ||
(nvram_open_mode & NVRAM_EXCL) ||
((file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) && (nvram_open_mode & NVRAM_WRITE))) {
spin_unlock(&nvram_state_lock);
- unlock_kernel();
return -EBUSY;
}
@@ -349,7 +347,6 @@ static int nvram_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
nvram_open_cnt++;
spin_unlock(&nvram_state_lock);
- unlock_kernel();
return 0;
}
--
1.6.5.2
>From fa2448aa56537113dcca77eb7b39a0fc72041122 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:57:19 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] nvram: Convert nvram_ioctl to unlocked_ioctl
After removing the BKL from open, we can also convert nvram_ioctl to
an unlocked_ioctl. It has it's own spin_lock, and doesn't rely on the BKL
Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>
---
drivers/char/nvram.c | 17 ++++++++---------
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/nvram.c b/drivers/char/nvram.c
index 740e356..724b9fe 100644
--- a/drivers/char/nvram.c
+++ b/drivers/char/nvram.c
@@ -292,8 +292,7 @@ checksum_err:
return -EIO;
}
-static int nvram_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file,
- unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
+static long nvram_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
{
int i;
@@ -414,13 +413,13 @@ static int nvram_add_proc_fs(void)
#endif /* CONFIG_PROC_FS */
static const struct file_operations nvram_fops = {
- .owner = THIS_MODULE,
- .llseek = nvram_llseek,
- .read = nvram_read,
- .write = nvram_write,
- .ioctl = nvram_ioctl,
- .open = nvram_open,
- .release = nvram_release,
+ .owner = THIS_MODULE,
+ .llseek = nvram_llseek,
+ .read = nvram_read,
+ .write = nvram_write,
+ .unlocked_ioctl = nvram_ioctl,
+ .open = nvram_open,
+ .release = nvram_release,
};
static struct miscdevice nvram_dev = {
--
1.6.5.2
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