From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <p_gortmaker@yahoo.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver: ip27-rtc - convert ioctl to unlocked_ioctl
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:14:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <478B7C4A.5090903@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aa79d98a0801132238o72266a91p78ae3a0c1476607c@mail.gmail.com>
On 01/14/2008 07:38 AM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> This patch converts ioctl call to unlocked_ioctl form. It's possible
> due to rtl_lock spinlock protection.
>
> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
> ---
> The patch is *not* tested but the patch does not bring _much_ changes
> so it wouldn't break the compilation procedure.
>
> If there is problem with attachment - i could send it as inline
> form today evening.
Yes, please, especially if it is app/octet-stream (base64 encoded plaintext).
Also Cc akpm or somebody who will pick your patch up.
> Andi, Jiri, Alexey the only thing I do complain about -
> is time set/read from several user threads that uses same
> (duplicated) file descriptor. Could there be useless thread
> spins instead of sleep (in case if this unlocked_ioctl were
> protected by mutex)?
Sorry, what?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-14 15:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-13 20:32 [PATCH] driver: ip27-rtc - convert ioctl to unlocked_ioctl Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-01-13 21:07 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-01-13 21:25 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-01-13 21:22 ` Jiri Slaby
2008-01-13 21:29 ` Jiri Slaby
2008-01-13 21:32 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-01-14 6:38 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-01-14 15:14 ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2008-01-14 15:38 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-01-14 15:59 ` Jiri Slaby
2008-01-14 16:07 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-01-14 16:27 ` Jiri Slaby
2008-01-14 16:28 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-01-13 23:08 ` Andi Kleen
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