[PATCH 01/12] staging: autoconvert trivial BKL users to private mutex

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Sun Jul 11 2010 - 17:19:25 EST


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@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
Cc: devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
drivers/staging/crystalhd/crystalhd_lnx.c | 9 +++++----
drivers/staging/dt3155/dt3155_drv.c | 6 ++++--
drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c | 7 ++++---
3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/crystalhd/crystalhd_lnx.c b/drivers/staging/crystalhd/crystalhd_lnx.c
index a4ec891..e4b9caa 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/crystalhd/crystalhd_lnx.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/crystalhd/crystalhd_lnx.c
@@ -15,11 +15,12 @@
along with this driver. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
***************************************************************************/

-#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
+#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>

#include "crystalhd_lnx.h"

+static DEFINE_MUTEX(chd_dec_mutex);
static struct class *crystalhd_class;

static struct crystalhd_adp *g_adp_info;
@@ -279,16 +280,16 @@ static long chd_dec_ioctl(struct file *fd, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long ua)
return -ENODATA;
}

- lock_kernel();
+ mutex_lock(&chd_dec_mutex);
cproc = crystalhd_get_cmd_proc(&adp->cmds, cmd, uc);
if (!cproc) {
BCMLOG_ERR("Unhandled command: %d\n", cmd);
- unlock_kernel();
+ mutex_unlock(&chd_dec_mutex);
return -EINVAL;
}

ret = chd_dec_api_cmd(adp, ua, uc->uid, cmd, cproc);
- unlock_kernel();
+ mutex_unlock(&chd_dec_mutex);
return ret;
}

diff --git a/drivers/staging/dt3155/dt3155_drv.c b/drivers/staging/dt3155/dt3155_drv.c
index 40ef97f..fdfde1f 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/dt3155/dt3155_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/dt3155/dt3155_drv.c
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ extern void printques(int);

#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
+#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/pci.h>
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/poll.h>
@@ -78,6 +79,7 @@ extern void printques(int);
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

/* Error variable. Zero means no error. */
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(dt3155_mutex);
int dt3155_errno = 0;

#ifndef PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_7116
@@ -841,9 +843,9 @@ dt3155_unlocked_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
{
int ret;

- lock_kernel();
+ mutex_lock(&dt3155_mutex);
ret = dt3155_ioctl(file->f_path.dentry->d_inode, file, cmd, arg);
- unlock_kernel();
+ mutex_unlock(&dt3155_mutex);

return ret;
}
diff --git a/drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c b/drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c
index bc16fc0..73a67a8 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/syscalls.h>
-#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
+#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/types.h>

#include <asm/io.h>
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
#include "../vme.h"
#include "vme_user.h"

+static DEFINE_MUTEX(vme_user_mutex);
static char driver_name[] = "vme_user";

static int bus[USER_BUS_MAX];
@@ -560,9 +561,9 @@ vme_user_unlocked_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
{
int ret;

- lock_kernel();
+ mutex_lock(&vme_user_mutex);
ret = vme_user_ioctl(file->f_path.dentry->d_inode, file, cmd, arg);
- unlock_kernel();
+ mutex_unlock(&vme_user_mutex);

return ret;
}
--
1.7.1

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