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| author | Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> | 2010-09-17 22:39:22 +0400 |
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| committer | Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> | 2010-10-19 13:29:57 +0400 |
| commit | 01b284f9b6d51cc3f3bcf3b49f16d2601d3ca22d (patch) | |
| tree | 686f6c3cb92f172c96eeb853c58cb343bbb5dd94 /kernel | |
| parent | 0fc86c7bd924debd0bddee790ecc884604fdcc63 (diff) | |
| download | linux-01b284f9b6d51cc3f3bcf3b49f16d2601d3ca22d.tar.xz | |
blktrace: remove the big kernel lock
According to Jens, this code does not need the BKL at all,
it is sufficiently serialized by bd_mutex.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/blktrace.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c index 959f8d6c8cc1..5328e8779d4d 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c @@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ #include <linux/mutex.h> #include <linux/slab.h> #include <linux/debugfs.h> -#include <linux/smp_lock.h> #include <linux/time.h> #include <linux/uaccess.h> @@ -639,7 +638,6 @@ int blk_trace_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, unsigned cmd, char __user *arg) if (!q) return -ENXIO; - lock_kernel(); mutex_lock(&bdev->bd_mutex); switch (cmd) { @@ -667,7 +665,6 @@ int blk_trace_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, unsigned cmd, char __user *arg) } mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_mutex); - unlock_kernel(); return ret; } @@ -1652,10 +1649,9 @@ static ssize_t sysfs_blk_trace_attr_show(struct device *dev, struct block_device *bdev; ssize_t ret = -ENXIO; - lock_kernel(); bdev = bdget(part_devt(p)); if (bdev == NULL) - goto out_unlock_kernel; + goto out; q = blk_trace_get_queue(bdev); if (q == NULL) @@ -1683,8 +1679,7 @@ out_unlock_bdev: mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_mutex); out_bdput: bdput(bdev); -out_unlock_kernel: - unlock_kernel(); +out: return ret; } @@ -1714,11 +1709,10 @@ static ssize_t sysfs_blk_trace_attr_store(struct device *dev, ret = -ENXIO; - lock_kernel(); p = dev_to_part(dev); bdev = bdget(part_devt(p)); if (bdev == NULL) - goto out_unlock_kernel; + goto out; q = blk_trace_get_queue(bdev); if (q == NULL) @@ -1753,8 +1747,6 @@ out_unlock_bdev: mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_mutex); out_bdput: bdput(bdev); -out_unlock_kernel: - unlock_kernel(); out: return ret ? ret : count; } |