Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Jun 2010 06:16:21 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] block: push down BKL into .locked_ioctl |
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> Ok, here comes the first step. Can you be more specific > about what you mean with the open and release methods? > Do you mean the sg.c and bsg.c chrdev file operations?
No, the open and release methods in struct block_device_operations. After this the driver API for block devices is BKL free, which is an important step. To get there the locking in blkdev_get/put needs to be sorted out first, though.
The ioctl pushdown patch looks good to me, btw.
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