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Staging: autoconvert trivial BKL users to private mutex
authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:18:52 +0000 (23:18 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:10:29 +0000 (11:10 -0700)
commit8e2394a981b9258db47f8e223a550d46c6d40cc8
tree1cf90b29486d1a2bcc42a1bc6e6ff1d8855f6a46
parent7ebc8760b38bb00c35fcf43dad438c2adcd7c328
Staging: 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.

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/staging/crystalhd/crystalhd_lnx.c
drivers/staging/dt3155/dt3155_drv.c
drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c