Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:14:49 +0200 | From | Frederic Weisbecker <> | Subject | Re: [patch 11/28] nvram: Drop the bkl from nvram_llseek() |
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On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:50:24PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Sunday 11 October 2009, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > > Now I'm adding the ioctl() sites too: > > > > git-grep "\.ioctl *=" | grep -P "^\S+\.c" | wc -l > > 452 > > > > Hehe :) > > Not all of them, fortunately. > > There are various *_operations structures that have a .ioctl pointer. > While there are a lot of struct file_operations with a locked .ioctl > operation, stuff like block_device_operations does not hold the > BKL in .ioctl but in .locked_ioctl. > > Arnd <><
Oh right. Thanks for the tip.
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