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David Brownell 5ad31a5751 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>
2008-07-24 10:47:33 -07:00
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acpi Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 2008-07-16 17:25:46 -07:00
asm-alpha flag parameters: paccept 2008-07-24 10:47:27 -07:00
asm-arm pm: remove remaining obsolete definitions from pm.h 2008-07-24 10:47:22 -07:00
asm-avr32 PAGE_ALIGN(): correctly handle 64-bit values on 32-bit architectures 2008-07-24 10:47:21 -07:00
asm-blackfin PAGE_ALIGN(): correctly handle 64-bit values on 32-bit architectures 2008-07-24 10:47:21 -07:00
asm-cris cris: remove unused global_flush_tlb 2008-07-24 10:47:24 -07:00
asm-frv PAGE_ALIGN(): correctly handle 64-bit values on 32-bit architectures 2008-07-24 10:47:21 -07:00
asm-generic Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 2008-07-16 17:25:46 -07:00
asm-h8300 remove include/asm-h8300/keyboard.h 2008-07-24 10:47:22 -07:00
asm-ia64 PAGE_ALIGN(): correctly handle 64-bit values on 32-bit architectures 2008-07-24 10:47:21 -07:00
asm-m32r PAGE_ALIGN(): correctly handle 64-bit values on 32-bit architectures 2008-07-24 10:47:21 -07:00
asm-m68k PAGE_ALIGN(): correctly handle 64-bit values on 32-bit architectures 2008-07-24 10:47:21 -07:00
asm-m68knommu PAGE_ALIGN(): correctly handle 64-bit values on 32-bit architectures 2008-07-24 10:47:21 -07:00
asm-mips spi: au1550_spi: proper platform device 2008-07-24 10:47:30 -07:00
asm-mn10300 mn10300: move sg_dma_{address,len}() to asm/scatterlist.h 2008-07-24 10:47:24 -07:00
asm-parisc flag parameters: paccept 2008-07-24 10:47:27 -07:00
asm-powerpc PAGE_ALIGN(): correctly handle 64-bit values on 32-bit architectures 2008-07-24 10:47:21 -07:00
asm-s390 PAGE_ALIGN(): correctly handle 64-bit values on 32-bit architectures 2008-07-24 10:47:21 -07:00
asm-sh PAGE_ALIGN(): correctly handle 64-bit values on 32-bit architectures 2008-07-24 10:47:21 -07:00
asm-sparc PAGE_ALIGN(): correctly handle 64-bit values on 32-bit architectures 2008-07-24 10:47:21 -07:00
asm-sparc64 sparc: join the remaining header files 2008-07-17 21:55:51 -07:00
asm-um UML: make several more things static 2008-07-24 10:47:24 -07:00
asm-v850 remove the v850 port 2008-07-24 10:47:24 -07:00
asm-x86 flag parameters add-on: remove epoll_create size param 2008-07-24 10:47:29 -07:00
asm-xtensa PAGE_ALIGN(): correctly handle 64-bit values on 32-bit architectures 2008-07-24 10:47:21 -07:00
crypto
drm drm/radeon: fixup issue with radeon and PAT support. 2008-07-15 15:48:05 +10:00
keys
linux rtc: remove BKL for ioctl() 2008-07-24 10:47:33 -07:00
math-emu
media V4L/DVB (8395): saa7134: Fix Kbuild dependency of ir-kbd-i2c 2008-07-20 07:29:03 -03:00
mtd
net ipv6: icmp6_dst_gc return change 2008-07-22 14:35:50 -07:00
pcmcia
rdma RDMA/addr: Keep pointer to netdevice in struct rdma_dev_addr 2008-07-14 23:48:53 -07:00
rxrpc
scsi driver core: remove KOBJ_NAME_LEN define 2008-07-21 21:54:52 -07:00
sound ALSA: Release v1.0.17 2008-07-14 09:54:43 +02:00
video
xen xen: implement Xen-specific spinlocks 2008-07-16 11:15:53 +02:00
Kbuild drm: reorganise drm tree to be more future proof. 2008-07-14 10:45:01 +10:00