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authorBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>2008-12-29 20:27:29 +0100
committerBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>2008-12-29 20:27:29 +0100
commit1f473e9c92ea458e60494561a2065a358b7239bb (patch)
treedc80484535ac987d49179c45f30f1fabadc8855a /drivers/ide/ide-proc.c
parent3e0e29f7373ec96a1bd972790649524af7353f42 (diff)
ide: IDE settings don't need an ide_lock held
IDE settings are protected by ide_setting_mtx mutex so there is no need to hold ide_lock in ide_setting_ioctl(), ide_read_setting() and ide_proc_unregister_driver(). Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/ide/ide-proc.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/ide/ide-proc.c25
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-proc.c b/drivers/ide/ide-proc.c
index f3cddd1b2f8..dd899e1f384 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-proc.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-proc.c
@@ -155,13 +155,8 @@ static int ide_read_setting(ide_drive_t *drive,
const struct ide_devset *ds = setting->setting;
int val = -EINVAL;
- if (ds->get) {
- unsigned long flags;
-
- spin_lock_irqsave(&ide_lock, flags);
+ if (ds->get)
val = ds->get(drive);
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ide_lock, flags);
- }
return val;
}
@@ -583,31 +578,19 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ide_proc_register_driver);
* Clean up the driver specific /proc files and IDE settings
* for a given drive.
*
- * Takes ide_setting_mtx and ide_lock.
- * Caller must hold none of the locks.
+ * Takes ide_setting_mtx.
*/
void ide_proc_unregister_driver(ide_drive_t *drive, ide_driver_t *driver)
{
- unsigned long flags;
-
ide_remove_proc_entries(drive->proc, driver->proc_entries(drive));
mutex_lock(&ide_setting_mtx);
- spin_lock_irqsave(&ide_lock, flags);
/*
- * ide_setting_mtx protects the settings list
- * ide_lock protects the use of settings
- *
- * so we need to hold both, ide_settings_sem because we want to
- * modify the settings list, and ide_lock because we cannot take
- * a setting out that is being used.
- *
- * OTOH both ide_{read,write}_setting are only ever used under
- * ide_setting_mtx.
+ * ide_setting_mtx protects both the settings list and the use
+ * of settings (we cannot take a setting out that is being used).
*/
drive->settings = NULL;
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ide_lock, flags);
mutex_unlock(&ide_setting_mtx);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(ide_proc_unregister_driver);