From f7a6117ee59c0001d58e830a82d7e205ed602bdd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roland Dreier Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:36:59 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] RDMA/ucma: BKL is not needed for ucma_open() Remove explicit lock_kernel() calls and document why the code is safe. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier --- drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c index 195f97302f..b41dd26bbf 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c @@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ #include #include #include -#include #include #include @@ -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; } -- 2.39.5