Messages in this thread | | | From | Frederic Weisbecker <> | Subject | [PATCH 0/6] Kill the bkl in procfs | Date | Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:20:09 +0200 |
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Hi,
This patchset drops any use of the big kernel lock from procfs. May be there is still one or two NULL llseek somewhere but I think we have fixed 99% of those that were in the procfs core.
Users of procfs implementing an ioctl have not been easy to spot automatically (there are hundreds of procfs users) as there are many indirect ways to register a procfs, depending on the subsystem you are.
So for those who want to verify the reliability of this check, you can look at the script there:
http://tglx.de/~fweisbec/seek.py
Beware it's very dirty! The hardcoded path are those I had to check manually (or that I added to the automatic check). One day I should learn how to use Coccinelle instead.
In the worst case, the remaining ones this script or my eyes forgot will trigger a warning.
Thanks.
Arnd Bergmann (1): procfs: Kill BKL in llseek on proc base
Frederic Weisbecker (5): procfs: Use generic_file_llseek in /proc/kcore procfs: Use generic_file_llseek in /proc/kmsg procfs: Use generic_file_llseek in /proc/vmcore procfs: Push down the bkl from ioctl procfs: Kill the bkl in ioctl
drivers/char/i8k.c | 53 +++++++++++++++------ drivers/isdn/divert/divert_procfs.c | 90 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------- fs/proc/base.c | 10 ++++- fs/proc/inode.c | 4 +- fs/proc/kcore.c | 1 + fs/proc/kmsg.c | 1 + fs/proc/vmcore.c | 1 + net/sunrpc/cache.c | 20 ++++++-- 8 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)
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