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author | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2008-02-04 16:47:59 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-02-04 16:47:59 +0100 |
commit | 2b06ac867176d5d24757bda7e13f6255d6b96d7b (patch) | |
tree | 3a9b1e802b46dfc494f50031e51d118724bf9fa6 /arch/x86/kernel/cpuid.c | |
parent | 2347d933b158932cf2b8aeebae3e5cc16b200bd1 (diff) | |
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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: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpuid.c')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpuid.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpuid.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpuid.c index c10ebc4b8e4b..288e7a6598ac 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpuid.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpuid.c @@ -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; } |