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| author | Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> | 2010-09-11 19:53:25 +0200 |
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| committer | Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> | 2010-10-19 11:29:55 +0200 |
| commit | adfedd216d9f0bc3f5bfa8aab42932301d4edc31 (patch) | |
| tree | edfd81d06615c22200a8fd9c007b9033ccf646bd /drivers/media | |
| parent | efbec1cd042008b49fe3cad45604088c54905a06 (diff) | |
| download | linux-adfedd216d9f0bc3f5bfa8aab42932301d4edc31.tar.bz2 | |
dvb/bt8xx: kill the big kernel lock
The bt8xx driver only uses the big kernel lock in its dst_ca_ioctl
function and never to serialize against other code, so we can
trivially replace it with a private mutex.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/media')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dst_ca.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dst_ca.c b/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dst_ca.c index cf8705162845..d75788b4e22e 100644 --- a/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dst_ca.c +++ b/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dst_ca.c @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/slab.h> #include <linux/init.h> -#include <linux/smp_lock.h> +#include <linux/mutex.h> #include <linux/string.h> #include <linux/dvb/ca.h> #include "dvbdev.h" @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ } while(0) +static DEFINE_MUTEX(dst_ca_mutex); static unsigned int verbose = 5; module_param(verbose, int, 0644); MODULE_PARM_DESC(verbose, "verbose startup messages, default is 1 (yes)"); @@ -564,7 +565,7 @@ static long dst_ca_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long ioct void __user *arg = (void __user *)ioctl_arg; int result = 0; - lock_kernel(); + mutex_lock(&dst_ca_mutex); dvbdev = file->private_data; state = (struct dst_state *)dvbdev->priv; p_ca_message = kmalloc(sizeof (struct ca_msg), GFP_KERNEL); @@ -652,7 +653,7 @@ static long dst_ca_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long ioct kfree (p_ca_slot_info); kfree (p_ca_caps); - unlock_kernel(); + mutex_unlock(&dst_ca_mutex); return result; } |