drivers: autoconvert trivial BKL users to private mutex
All these files use the big kernel lock in a trivial
way to serialize their private file operations,
typically resulting from an earlier semi-automatic
pushdown from VFS.
None of these drivers appears to want to lock against
other code, and they all use the BKL as the top-level
lock in their file operations, meaning that there
is no lock-order inversion problem.
Consequently, we can remove the BKL completely,
replacing it with a per-file mutex in every case.
Using a scripted approach means we can avoid
typos.
These drivers do not seem to be under active
maintainance from my brief investigation. Apologies
to those maintainers that I have missed.
file=$1
name=$2
if grep -q lock_kernel ${file} ; then
if grep -q 'include.*linux.mutex.h' ${file} ; then
sed -i '/include.*<linux\/smp_lock.h>/d' ${file}
else
sed -i 's/include.*<linux\/smp_lock.h>.*$/include <linux\/mutex.h>/g' ${file}
fi
sed -i ${file} \
-e "/^#include.*linux.mutex.h/,$ {
1,/^\(static\|int\|long\)/ {
/^\(static\|int\|long\)/istatic DEFINE_MUTEX(${name}_mutex);
} }" \
-e "s/\(un\)*lock_kernel\>[ ]*()/mutex_\1lock(\&${name}_mutex)/g" \
-e '/[ ]*cycle_kernel_lock();/d'
else
sed -i -e '/include.*\<smp_lock.h\>/d' ${file} \
-e '/cycle_kernel_lock()/d'
fi
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
diff --git a/drivers/char/mmtimer.c b/drivers/char/mmtimer.c
index ea7c99f..fe46978 100644
--- a/drivers/char/mmtimer.c
+++ b/drivers/char/mmtimer.c
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
#include <linux/time.h>
#include <linux/math64.h>
-#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
+#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@
#define rtc_time() (*RTC_COUNTER_ADDR)
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(mmtimer_mutex);
static long mmtimer_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
unsigned long arg);
static int mmtimer_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma);
@@ -371,7 +372,7 @@
{
int ret = 0;
- lock_kernel();
+ mutex_lock(&mmtimer_mutex);
switch (cmd) {
case MMTIMER_GETOFFSET: /* offset of the counter */
@@ -414,7 +415,7 @@
ret = -ENOTTY;
break;
}
- unlock_kernel();
+ mutex_unlock(&mmtimer_mutex);
return ret;
}