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>
This commit is contained in:
Arnd Bergmann
2010-06-02 14:28:52 +02:00
parent 609146fdb3
commit 613655fa39
35 changed files with 216 additions and 190 deletions

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@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/uio.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <asm/io.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -42,6 +41,7 @@
#else
#define DBG(fmt...)
#endif
static DEFINE_MUTEX(mbcs_mutex);
static int mbcs_major;
static LIST_HEAD(soft_list);
@@ -385,19 +385,19 @@ static int mbcs_open(struct inode *ip, struct file *fp)
struct mbcs_soft *soft;
int minor;
lock_kernel();
mutex_lock(&mbcs_mutex);
minor = iminor(ip);
/* Nothing protects access to this list... */
list_for_each_entry(soft, &soft_list, list) {
if (soft->nasid == minor) {
fp->private_data = soft->cxdev;
unlock_kernel();
mutex_unlock(&mbcs_mutex);
return 0;
}
}
unlock_kernel();
mutex_unlock(&mbcs_mutex);
return -ENODEV;
}