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From: Arnd Bergmann <arndbergmann@googlemail.com>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 11/28] nvram: Drop the bkl from nvram_llseek()
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:50:24 +0200
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On Sunday 11 October 2009, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> Now I'm adding the ioctl() sites too:
> 
> git-grep "\.ioctl *=" | grep -P "^\S+\.c" | wc -l
> 452
> 
> Hehe :)

Not all of them, fortunately.

There are various *_operations structures that have a .ioctl pointer.
While there are a lot of struct file_operations with a locked .ioctl
operation, stuff like block_device_operations does not hold the
BKL in .ioctl but in .locked_ioctl.

	Arnd <><
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