Commit 2b06ac86 authored by H. Peter Anvin's avatar H. Peter Anvin Committed by Ingo Molnar

x86: cpuid, msr: use inode mutex instead of big kernel lock

Instead of grabbing the BKL on seek, use the inode mutex in the style
of generic_file_llseek().
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
parent 2347d933
......@@ -62,9 +62,9 @@ static void cpuid_smp_cpuid(void *cmd_block)
static loff_t cpuid_seek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int orig)
{
loff_t ret;
struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
lock_kernel();
mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
switch (orig) {
case 0:
file->f_pos = offset;
......@@ -77,8 +77,7 @@ static loff_t cpuid_seek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int orig)
default:
ret = -EINVAL;
}
unlock_kernel();
mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
return ret;
}
......
/* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *
*
* Copyright 2000 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved
* Copyright 2000-2008 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
......@@ -45,9 +45,10 @@ static struct class *msr_class;
static loff_t msr_seek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int orig)
{
loff_t ret = -EINVAL;
loff_t ret;
struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
lock_kernel();
mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
switch (orig) {
case 0:
file->f_pos = offset;
......@@ -56,8 +57,11 @@ static loff_t msr_seek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int orig)
case 1:
file->f_pos += offset;
ret = file->f_pos;
break;
default:
ret = -EINVAL;
}
unlock_kernel();
mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
return ret;
}
......
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