From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nikanth Karthikesan Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 05:51:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Change x86 Machine check handler to use unlocked_iocl instead Message-Id: <4785B342.2070501@suse.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Andi Kleen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org The Machine check handler registers ioctl handler that is called with the BKL held. Changing to register unlocked_ioctl instead. Also mce ioctl handler does not seem to need any lock protection. To: Andi Kleen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Change the Machine check handler to use unlocked_ioctl instead of ioctl handler. Also the mce ioctl handler does not need any lock protection. Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan --- diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c index 4b21d29..d3baa62 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c @@ -634,8 +634,7 @@ static unsigned int mce_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait) return 0; } -static int mce_ioctl(struct inode *i, struct file *f,unsigned int cmd, - unsigned long arg) +static long mce_ioctl(struct file *f, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) { int __user *p = (int __user *)arg; @@ -664,7 +663,7 @@ static const struct file_operations mce_chrdev_ops = { .release = mce_release, .read = mce_read, .poll = mce_poll, - .ioctl = mce_ioctl, + .unlocked_ioctl = mce_ioctl, }; static struct miscdevice mce_log_device = {