From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: general@lists.openfabrics.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, sean.hefty@intel.com
Subject: [PATCH] RDMA/ucm: BKL is not needed for ib_ucm_open()
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:57:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adaprpedfwq.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
Remove explicit cycle_kernel_lock() call and document why the code is safe.
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
---
And merge this too...
drivers/infiniband/core/ucm.c | 10 ++++++++--
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/ucm.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/ucm.c
index 9494005..e603736 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/ucm.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/ucm.c
@@ -43,7 +43,6 @@
#include <linux/cdev.h>
#include <linux/idr.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
-#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -1154,11 +1153,18 @@ static unsigned int ib_ucm_poll(struct file *filp,
return mask;
}
+/*
+ * ib_ucm_open() does not need the BKL:
+ *
+ * - no global state is referred to;
+ * - there is no ioctl method to race against;
+ * - no further module initialization is required for open to work
+ * after the device is registered.
+ */
static int ib_ucm_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
{
struct ib_ucm_file *file;
- cycle_kernel_lock();
file = kmalloc(sizeof(*file), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!file)
return -ENOMEM;
--
1.5.6.2
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