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Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:08:10 +0200
From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arndbergmann@googlemail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
       Vincent Sanders <vince@simtec.co.uk>, John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>,
       Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
       Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <sven@thebigcorporation.com>,
       Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it>,
       Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
       Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 11/28] nvram: Drop the bkl from nvram_llseek()
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On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 09:31:40PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Saturday 10 October 2009, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > There is nothing to protect inside nvram_llseek(), the file
> > offset doesn't need to be protected and nvram_len is only
> > initialized from an __init path.
> > 
> > It's safe to remove the big kernel lock there.
> > 
> 
> The generic_nvram driver still uses ->ioctl instead of ->unlocked_ioctl.
> I guess it would be helpful to change that in the same series, so we
> don't get the BKL back as soon as someone does a pushdown into the
> remaining ioctl functions.
> 
> 	Arnd <><


Right!
I'll add that in a second patch.

I've completely forgotten this ioctl/unlocked_ioctl thing.

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