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| author | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2008-07-15 09:44:51 +0400 |
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| committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2008-07-15 09:44:51 +0400 |
| commit | 43d2548bb2ef7e6d753f91468a746784041e522d (patch) | |
| tree | 77d13fcd48fd998393abb825ec36e2b732684a73 /include/linux/smp_lock.h | |
| parent | 585583d95c5660973bc0cf64add517b040acd8a4 (diff) | |
| parent | 85082fd7cbe3173198aac0eb5e85ab1edcc6352c (diff) | |
| download | linux-43d2548bb2ef7e6d753f91468a746784041e522d.tar.xz | |
Merge commit '85082fd7cbe3173198aac0eb5e85ab1edcc6352c' into test-build
Manual fixup of:
arch/powerpc/Kconfig
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/smp_lock.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/smp_lock.h | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/smp_lock.h b/include/linux/smp_lock.h index aab3a4cff4e1..813be59bf345 100644 --- a/include/linux/smp_lock.h +++ b/include/linux/smp_lock.h @@ -27,11 +27,24 @@ static inline int reacquire_kernel_lock(struct task_struct *task) extern void __lockfunc lock_kernel(void) __acquires(kernel_lock); extern void __lockfunc unlock_kernel(void) __releases(kernel_lock); +/* + * Various legacy drivers don't really need the BKL in a specific + * function, but they *do* need to know that the BKL became available. + * This function just avoids wrapping a bunch of lock/unlock pairs + * around code which doesn't really need it. + */ +static inline void cycle_kernel_lock(void) +{ + lock_kernel(); + unlock_kernel(); +} + #else #define lock_kernel() do { } while(0) #define unlock_kernel() do { } while(0) #define release_kernel_lock(task) do { } while(0) +#define cycle_kernel_lock() do { } while(0) #define reacquire_kernel_lock(task) 0 #define kernel_locked() 1 |