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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>2008-07-27 12:25:57 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>2008-07-27 12:25:57 -0300
commit50cb993ea6cd187bfed085cb3e0747066edeb02f (patch)
tree61edac62c6c5bc07c59e4369c50c6821ad77f2c0 /drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c
parent445c2714cf72817ab1ad3ca894c6d9b2047b3a3e (diff)
parent8be1a6d6c77ab4532e4476fdb8177030ef48b52c (diff)
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Merge ../linux-2.6
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c
index 195f97302fe5..b41dd26bbfa1 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@
#include <linux/in.h>
#include <linux/in6.h>
#include <linux/miscdevice.h>
-#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
#include <rdma/rdma_user_cm.h>
#include <rdma/ib_marshall.h>
@@ -1149,6 +1148,14 @@ static unsigned int ucma_poll(struct file *filp, struct poll_table_struct *wait)
return mask;
}
+/*
+ * ucma_open() does not need the BKL:
+ *
+ * - no global state is referred to;
+ * - there is no ioctl method to race against;
+ * - no further module initialization is required for open to work
+ * after the device is registered.
+ */
static int ucma_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
{
struct ucma_file *file;
@@ -1157,7 +1164,6 @@ static int ucma_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
if (!file)
return -ENOMEM;
- lock_kernel();
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&file->event_list);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&file->ctx_list);
init_waitqueue_head(&file->poll_wait);
@@ -1165,7 +1171,6 @@ static int ucma_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
filp->private_data = file;
file->filp = filp;
- unlock_kernel();
return 0;
}