Eric Lee / linux-smarc-t335x-v3.2

05 Oct, 2010

1 commit

  • 613655fa3   drivers: autoconvert trivial BKL users to private mutex ... Browse Code »

    All these files use the big kernel lock in a trivial
    way to serialize their private file operations,
    typically resulting from an earlier semi-automatic
    pushdown from VFS.

    None of these drivers appears to want to lock against
    other code, and they all use the BKL as the top-level
    lock in their file operations, meaning that there
    is no lock-order inversion problem.

    Consequently, we can remove the BKL completely,
    replacing it with a per-file mutex in every case.
    Using a scripted approach means we can avoid
    typos.

    These drivers do not seem to be under active
    maintainance from my brief investigation. Apologies
    to those maintainers that I have missed.

    file=$1
    name=$2
    if grep -q lock_kernel ${file} ; then
    if grep -q 'include.*linux.mutex.h' ${file} ; then
    sed -i '/include.*/d' ${file}
    else
    sed -i 's/include.*.*$/include /g' ${file}
    fi
    sed -i ${file} \
    -e "/^#include.*linux.mutex.h/,$ {
    1,/^\(static\|int\|long\)/ {
    /^\(static\|int\|long\)/istatic DEFINE_MUTEX(${name}_mutex);

    } }" \
    -e "s/\(un\)*lock_kernel\>[ ]*()/mutex_\1lock(\&${name}_mutex)/g" \
    -e '/[ ]*cycle_kernel_lock();/d'
    else
    sed -i -e '/include.*\/d' ${file} \
    -e '/cycle_kernel_lock()/d'
    fi

    Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

    Arnd Bergmann
     

17 May, 2010

1 commit

  • 55929332c   drivers: Push down BKL into various drivers ... Browse Code »

    These are the last remaining device drivers using
    the ->ioctl file operation in the drivers directory
    (except from v4l drivers).

    [fweisbec: drop i8k pushdown as it has been done from
    procfs pushdown branch already]

    Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
    Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker

    Arnd Bergmann
     

20 Dec, 2009

1 commit

13 Dec, 2008

1 commit

26 Jul, 2008

2 commits

  • 4ef584ba8   [ARM] fix nwflash.c: 6ee8928d94841aa764aeaf645ad16daff811dc26 ... Browse Code »

    drivers/char/nwflash.c: In function 'flash_read':
    drivers/char/nwflash.c:129: error: 'p' undeclared (first use in this function)
    drivers/char/nwflash.c:129: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
    drivers/char/nwflash.c:129: error: for each function it appears in.)
    drivers/char/nwflash.c:129: error: 'count' undeclared (first use in this function)
    drivers/char/nwflash.c:136: warning: passing argument 4 of 'simple_read_from_buffer' discards qualifiers from pointer target type

    Signed-off-by: Russell King

    Russell King
     
  • 6ee8928d9   nwflash: use simple_read_from_buffer() ... Browse Code »

    Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita
    Cc: Russell King
    Cc: Tim Schmielau
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Akinobu Mita
     

15 Feb, 2007

1 commit

  • cd354f1ae   [PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h ... Browse Code »

    After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h
    recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes.
    There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need
    anything defined in there. Presumably these includes were once needed for
    macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the
    course of cleaning it up.

    To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only
    removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble.

    Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha,
    arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig,
    allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all
    configs in arch/arm/configs on arm. I also checked that no new warnings were
    introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted
    by unnecessarily included header files).

    Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau
    Acked-by: Russell King
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Tim Schmielau
     

04 Jul, 2006

1 commit

  • 62322d255   [PATCH] make more file_operation structs static ... Browse Code »

    Mark the static struct file_operations in drivers/char as const. Making
    them const prevents accidental bugs, and moves them to the .rodata section
    so that they no longer do any false sharing; in addition with the proper
    debug option they are then protected against corruption..

    [akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
    Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Arjan van de Ven
     

23 Mar, 2006

1 commit

  • 6f87f0dee   [PATCH] sem2mutex: drivers/char/ ... Browse Code »

    Semaphore to mutex conversion.

    The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
    automatically via a script as well.

    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Russell King
    Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Ingo Molnar
     

17 Apr, 2005

1 commit

  • 1da177e4c   Linux-2.6.12-rc2 ... Browse Code »

    Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
    even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
    archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
    3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
    git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
    infrastructure for it.

    Let it rip!

    Linus Torvalds