From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:47:59 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: x86: cpuid, msr: use inode mutex instead of big kernel lock
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.25-rc1~1057^2~55
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2b06ac867176d5d24757bda7e13f6255d6b96d7b;p=linux-2.6

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>
---

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpuid.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpuid.c
index c10ebc4b8e..288e7a6598 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;
 }
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/msr.c b/arch/x86/kernel/msr.c
index bd82850e65..af51ea8400 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/msr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/msr.c
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *
- *   
- *   Copyright 2000 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved
+ *
+ *   Copyright 2000-2008 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved
  *
  *   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -45,9 +45,10 @@ static struct class *msr_class;
 
 static loff_t msr_seek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int orig)
 {
-	loff_t ret = -EINVAL;
+	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;
@@ -56,8 +57,11 @@ static loff_t msr_seek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int orig)
 	case 1:
 		file->f_pos += offset;
 		ret = file->f_pos;
+		break;
+	default:
+		ret = -EINVAL;
 	}
-	unlock_kernel();
+	mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
 	return ret;
 }