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authorDavid Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>2008-07-23 21:30:33 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-07-24 10:47:33 -0700
commit5ad31a575157147b43fa84ef1e21471661653878 (patch)
treec4a42d45957362aa8391938ae3e11496321c19d8 /include/linux
parent53f1b1433da7eac2607a4a0898a221a4485fd732 (diff)
rtc: remove BKL for ioctl()
Remove implicit use of BKL in ioctl() from the RTC framework. Instead, the rtc->ops_lock is used. That's the same lock that already protects the RTC operations when they're issued through the exported rtc_*() calls in drivers/rtc/interface.c ... making this a bugfix, not just a cleanup, since both ioctl calls and set_alarm() need to update IRQ enable flags and that implies a common lock (which RTC drivers as a rule do not provide on their own). A new comment at the declaration of "struct rtc_class_ops" summarizes current locking rules. It's not clear to me that the exceptions listed there should exist ... if not, those are pre-existing problems which can be fixed in a patch that doesn't relate to BKL removal. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/rtc.h17
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/rtc.h b/include/linux/rtc.h
index f2d0d152772..b01fe004cb5 100644
--- a/include/linux/rtc.h
+++ b/include/linux/rtc.h
@@ -115,6 +115,23 @@ extern void rtc_time_to_tm(unsigned long time, struct rtc_time *tm);
extern struct class *rtc_class;
+/*
+ * For these RTC methods the device parameter is the physical device
+ * on whatever bus holds the hardware (I2C, Platform, SPI, etc), which
+ * was passed to rtc_device_register(). Its driver_data normally holds
+ * device state, including the rtc_device pointer for the RTC.
+ *
+ * Most of these methods are called with rtc_device.ops_lock held,
+ * through the rtc_*(struct rtc_device *, ...) calls.
+ *
+ * The (current) exceptions are mostly filesystem hooks:
+ * - the proc() hook for procfs
+ * - non-ioctl() chardev hooks: open(), release(), read_callback()
+ * - periodic irq calls: irq_set_state(), irq_set_freq()
+ *
+ * REVISIT those periodic irq calls *do* have ops_lock when they're
+ * issued through ioctl() ...
+ */
struct rtc_class_ops {
int (*open)(struct device *);
void (*release)(struct device *);