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authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2010-07-07 16:51:29 +0200
committerJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>2010-08-07 18:26:08 +0200
commit409f3499a2cfcd1e9c2857c53af7fcce069f027f (patch)
tree7275165954c7f1143d219f4b141888d6c0a5a4ab /drivers/scsi/sd.h
parent15392efb9d427482754f6d267262452878667499 (diff)
scsi/sd: remove big kernel lock
Every user of the BKL in the sd driver is the result of the pushdown from the block layer into the open/close/ioctl functions. The only place that used to rely on the BKL is the sdkp->openers variable, which gets converted into an atomic_t. Nothing else seems to rely on the BKL, since the functions do not touch global data without holding another lock, and the open/close functions are still protected from concurrent execution using the bdev->bd_mutex. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@suse.de> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/scsi/sd.h')
-rw-r--r--drivers/scsi/sd.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sd.h b/drivers/scsi/sd.h
index 43d3caf268e..f81a9309e6d 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/sd.h
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sd.h
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ struct scsi_disk {
struct scsi_device *device;
struct device dev;
struct gendisk *disk;
- unsigned int openers; /* protected by BKL for now, yuck */
+ atomic_t openers;
sector_t capacity; /* size in 512-byte sectors */
u32 index;
unsigned short hw_sector_size;