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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/6] Kill the bkl in procfs
    On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 08:20:09AM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
    > 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.


    I've applied the patchset to

    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing.git
    bkl/procfs

    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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