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UIO: BKL removal
authorJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:15:45 +0000 (17:15 -0600)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:32:26 +0000 (12:32 -0600)
commit0d4a7bc12ffecd3ba41dd94179cc5b272b71ce8a
tree40fb095468564e1bcd64ee9a01ac409406cc36d3tree | snapshot
parent3fa8749e584b55f1180411ab1b51117190bac1e5commit | diff
UIO: BKL removal

Fill in needed locking around idr accesses, then remove the big kernel lock
from the UIO driver.  Since there are no in-tree UIO drivers with open()
methods, no further BKL pushdown is required.

Acked-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
drivers/uio/uio.c diff | blob | history
Full containers within linux kernel