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perf_event: Make perf fd non seekable
authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@relay.de.ibm.com>
Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:09:33 +0000 (19:09 +0100)
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Sun, 4 Apr 2010 13:27:58 +0000 (15:27 +0200)
commit3326c1ceee234e63160852720d48be8a8f7a6d08
tree18aa2c9ebe2985c558e61c778f7a1e6cd8ab6393tree | snapshot
parent6cc8a7c1d8560c042f486b23318a6291569ab96bcommit | diff
perf_event: Make perf fd non seekable

Perf_event does not need seeking, so prevent it in order to
get rid of default_llseek, which uses the BKL.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
[drop the nonseekable_open, not needed for anon inodes]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
kernel/perf_event.c diff | blob | history
Full containers within linux kernel