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Roland Dreier authored
Currently the BKL is used to synchronize access to ioctl32_hash_table in fs/compat.c. It seems that an rwsem would be more appropriate, since this would allow multiple lookups to occur in parallel (and also serve the general good of minimizing use of the BKL). I added lock_kernel()/unlock_kernel() around the call to t->handler when a compatibility handler is found in compat_sys_ioctl() to preserve the expectation that the BKL will be held during driver ioctl operations. It should be safe to do lock_kernel() while holding ioctl32_sem because of the magic BKL sleep semantics. Signed-off-by:
Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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