This pushes the BKL down into the driver. Based on a patch by Alan Cox. We need to do it this way for now as the inode parameter of viotap_ioctl is used internally as a flag. We should do a further cleanup patch.
Cc: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/char/viotape.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++------ 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/viotape.c b/drivers/char/viotape.c index 58aad63..0dda915 100644 --- a/drivers/char/viotape.c +++ b/drivers/char/viotape.c @@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ #include <linux/completion.h> #include <linux/proc_fs.h> #include <linux/seq_file.h> +#include <linux/smp_lock.h> #include <asm/uaccess.h> #include <asm/ioctls.h> @@ -677,6 +678,17 @@ free_op: return ret; } +static long viotap_unlocked_ioctl(struct file *file, + unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) +{ + long rc; + + lock_kernel(); + rc = viotap_ioctl(file->f_path.dentry->d_inode, file, cmd, arg); + unlock_kernel(); + return rc; +} + static int viotap_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) { HvLpEvent_Rc hvrc; @@ -783,12 +795,12 @@ free_op: } const struct file_operations viotap_fops = { - .owner = THIS_MODULE, - .read = viotap_read, - .write = viotap_write, - .ioctl = viotap_ioctl, - .open = viotap_open, - .release = viotap_release, + .owner = THIS_MODULE, + .read = viotap_read, + .write = viotap_write, + .unlocked_ioctl = viotap_unlocked_ioctl, + .open = viotap_open, + .release = viotap_release, }; /* Handle interrupt events for tape */ -- 1.5.5.1 -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/ _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev