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| author | Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> | 2005-06-23 11:10:15 +0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-06-23 20:45:32 +0400 |
| commit | bb93e3a52f8db7210258a1a2134cced0b78a46e1 (patch) | |
| tree | b6def4c3fe5624769de64e242bb2007fffea55c8 /include/linux | |
| parent | 0d77e5a2c23da734f5a7925f64afa1c2ed92e0f9 (diff) | |
| download | linux-bb93e3a52f8db7210258a1a2134cced0b78a46e1.tar.xz | |
[PATCH] block: add unlocked_ioctl support for block devices
This patch allows block device drivers to convert their ioctl functions to
unlocked_ioctl() like character devices and other subsystems. All
functions that were called with the BKL held before are still used that
way, but I would not be surprised if it could be removed from the ioctl
functions in drivers/block/ioctl.c themselves.
As a side note, I found that compat_blkdev_ioctl() acquires the BKL as
well, which looks like a bug. I have checked that every user of
disk->fops->compat_ioctl() in the current git tree gets the BKL itself, so
it could easily be removed from compat_blkdev_ioctl().
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/fs.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 3622e952e98c..9b1278e21279 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -884,6 +884,7 @@ struct block_device_operations { int (*open) (struct inode *, struct file *); int (*release) (struct inode *, struct file *); int (*ioctl) (struct inode *, struct file *, unsigned, unsigned long); + long (*unlocked_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned, unsigned long); long (*compat_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned, unsigned long); int (*media_changed) (struct gendisk *); int (*revalidate_disk) (struct gendisk *); |