Re: [PATCH] HPET: Remove the BKL.

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu Oct 09 2008 - 06:31:51 EST


David John <davidjon@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Concurrent access is protected by the spin lock hpet_lock. The
> BKL is not required.

You should probably also convert the .ioctl = ... to .unlocked_ioctl.
Otherwise you still got implicit BKL for the ioctls.

-Andi

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