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author | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2009-10-07 21:43:22 +0200 |
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committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2009-10-07 13:47:19 -0700 |
commit | d6c304055b3cecd4ca865769ac7cea97a320727b (patch) | |
tree | fd32be5e2e925846d5a1cd3c49b5594b57469425 /arch/x86/kernel | |
parent | 98059e3463383b18fd79181179cd539b74846b47 (diff) |
x86, msr: Remove the bkl from msr_open()
Remove the big kernel lock from msr_open() as it doesn't protect
anything there.
The only racy event that can happen here is a concurrent cpu shutdown.
So let's look at what could be racy during/after the above event:
- The cpu_online() check is racy, but the bkl doesn't help about
that anyway it disables preemption but we may be chcking another
cpu than the current one.
Also the cpu can still become offlined between open and read calls.
- The cpu_data(cpu) returns a safe pointer too. It won't be released on
cpu offlining. But some fields can be changed from
arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:remove_siblinginfo() :
- phys_proc_id
- cpu_core_id
Those are not read from msr_open(). What we are checking is the
x86_capability that is left untouched on offlining.
So this removal looks safe.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <sdietrich@suse.de>
LKML-Reference: <1254944602-7382-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/msr.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/msr.c b/arch/x86/kernel/msr.c index 7dd95009417..c0061096323 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/msr.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/msr.c @@ -174,21 +174,17 @@ static int msr_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) { unsigned int cpu = iminor(file->f_path.dentry->d_inode); struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = &cpu_data(cpu); - int ret = 0; - lock_kernel(); cpu = iminor(file->f_path.dentry->d_inode); - if (cpu >= nr_cpu_ids || !cpu_online(cpu)) { - ret = -ENXIO; /* No such CPU */ - goto out; - } + if (cpu >= nr_cpu_ids || !cpu_online(cpu)) + return -ENXIO; /* No such CPU */ + c = &cpu_data(cpu); if (!cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_MSR)) - ret = -EIO; /* MSR not supported */ -out: - unlock_kernel(); - return ret; + return -EIO; /* MSR not supported */ + + return 0; } /* |