On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 20:58 +0100, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote: > On Jan 8, 2008 5:40 PM, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I cooked up the following patch (probably mangled, just to give you > a rough idea of what I did): > diff --git a/arch/arm/common/rtctime.c b/arch/arm/common/rtctime.c > index bf1075e..19dedb5 100644 > --- a/arch/arm/common/rtctime.c > +++ b/arch/arm/common/rtctime.c > @@ -189,13 +189,16 @@ static int rtc_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct > file *file, unsigned int cmd,
You'll need to change the prototype, the unlocked version doesn't take an inode. And you'll need to make sure that nothing in the function uses the inode, which I think Andi forgot to mention. > + if (ret) { > + unlock_kernel(); > ret = -EFAULT; This is not a return statement. You only need to unlock before the actual return. > -static const struct file_operations rtc_fops = { > +static long rtc_fioctl(struct file_operations rtc_fops) > +{ > + lock_kernel(); Heh. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/