From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] Switch ioctl functions of drivers/scsi/sg.c to unlocked_ioctl
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:09:32 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1199995772.3141.90.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080110194550.GB20152@skl-net.de>
On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 20:45 +0100, Andre Noll wrote:
> On 20:29, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > > Sure, I can do that if James likes the idea. Since not all case
> > > statements need the BKL, we could add it only to those for which it
> > > isn't clear that it is unnecessary.
> > >
> > > And this would actually improve something.
> >
> > I still think it would be a good strategy to first add it to all
> > (in a essentially nop semantics patch) and then later eliminate
> > it from the cases that obviously don't need it.
>
> James, would you accept such a patch?
Our current suspicion is that none of the SCSI ioctl paths require the
BKL. Al Viro said he'd try to look into this, so currently I think the
conversion path is just to move .ioctl -> .unlocked_ioctl
However, more eyes on the problem would be most welcome.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-10 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-10 18:05 [patch 1/1] Switch ioctl functions of drivers/scsi/sg.c to unlocked_ioctl Andre Noll
2008-01-10 18:54 ` James Bottomley
2008-01-10 18:59 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-10 19:03 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-01-10 19:21 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-10 19:03 ` James Bottomley
2008-01-10 19:32 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-10 19:33 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-01-10 19:38 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-10 19:07 ` Andre Noll
2008-01-10 19:29 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-10 19:45 ` Andre Noll
2008-01-10 20:09 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2008-01-10 20:13 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-01-10 20:40 ` Andre Noll
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