From ab91261f5c43f196ec7ff1d113847b87b7606b26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnd Bergmann Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 22:55:17 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] vfs: don't use BKL in default_llseek There are currently 191 users of default_llseek. Nine of these are in device drivers that use the big kernel lock. None of these ever touch file->f_pos outside of llseek or file_pos_write. Consequently, we never rely on the BKL in the default_llseek function and can replace that with i_mutex, which is also used in generic_file_llseek. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann --- fs/read_write.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c index 74e36586e4d3..fd09f6166ccf 100644 --- a/fs/read_write.c +++ b/fs/read_write.c @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ loff_t default_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin) { loff_t retval; - lock_kernel(); + mutex_lock(&file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_mutex); switch (origin) { case SEEK_END: offset += i_size_read(file->f_path.dentry->d_inode); @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ loff_t default_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin) retval = offset; } out: - unlock_kernel(); + mutex_unlock(&file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_mutex); return retval; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(default_llseek); -- 2.39.5