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authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2010-08-07 12:25:34 -0400
committerJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>2010-08-07 12:25:34 -0400
commit6e9624b8caec290d28b4c6d9ec75749df6372b87 (patch)
tree47225b544e1da82742795553dc4e8aa70c17afdc /drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
parent8a6cfeb6deca3a8fefd639d898b0d163c0b5d368 (diff)
block: push down BKL into .open and .release
The open and release block_device_operations are currently called with the BKL held. In order to change that, we must first make sure that all drivers that currently rely on this have no regressions. This blindly pushes the BKL into all .open and .release operations for all block drivers to prepare for the next step. The drivers can subsequently replace the BKL with their own locks or remove it completely when it can be shown that it is not needed. The functions blkdev_get and blkdev_put are the only remaining users of the big kernel lock in the block layer, besides a few uses in the ioctl code, none of which need to serialize with blkdev_{get,put}. Most of these two functions is also under the protection of bdev->bd_mutex, including the actual calls to ->open and ->release, and the common code does not access any global data structures that need the BKL. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
index 9119cd3d56a4..91374282755d 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
41#include <linux/cdrom.h> 41#include <linux/cdrom.h>
42#include <linux/module.h> 42#include <linux/module.h>
43#include <linux/slab.h> 43#include <linux/slab.h>
44#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
44#include <linux/scatterlist.h> 45#include <linux/scatterlist.h>
45 46
46#include <xen/xen.h> 47#include <xen/xen.h>
@@ -1018,13 +1019,18 @@ static int blkfront_is_ready(struct xenbus_device *dev)
1018static int blkif_open(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode) 1019static int blkif_open(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode)
1019{ 1020{
1020 struct blkfront_info *info = bdev->bd_disk->private_data; 1021 struct blkfront_info *info = bdev->bd_disk->private_data;
1022
1023 lock_kernel();
1021 info->users++; 1024 info->users++;
1025 unlock_kernel();
1026
1022 return 0; 1027 return 0;
1023} 1028}
1024 1029
1025static int blkif_release(struct gendisk *disk, fmode_t mode) 1030static int blkif_release(struct gendisk *disk, fmode_t mode)
1026{ 1031{
1027 struct blkfront_info *info = disk->private_data; 1032 struct blkfront_info *info = disk->private_data;
1033 lock_kernel();
1028 info->users--; 1034 info->users--;
1029 if (info->users == 0) { 1035 if (info->users == 0) {
1030 /* Check whether we have been instructed to close. We will 1036 /* Check whether we have been instructed to close. We will
@@ -1036,6 +1042,7 @@ static int blkif_release(struct gendisk *disk, fmode_t mode)
1036 if (state == XenbusStateClosing && info->is_ready) 1042 if (state == XenbusStateClosing && info->is_ready)
1037 blkfront_closing(dev); 1043 blkfront_closing(dev);
1038 } 1044 }
1045 unlock_kernel();
1039 return 0; 1046 return 0;
1040} 1047}
1041 1048