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| author | David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> | 2008-07-25 10:40:14 -0400 |
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| committer | David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> | 2008-07-25 10:40:14 -0400 |
| commit | ff877ea80efa2015b6263766f78ee42c2a1b32f9 (patch) | |
| tree | 85205005c611ab774702148558321c6fb92f1ccd /include/linux/smp_lock.h | |
| parent | 30821fee4f0cb3e6d241d9f7ddc37742212e3eb7 (diff) | |
| parent | d37e6bf68fc1eb34a4ad21d9ae8890ed37ea80e7 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/~dedekind/ubi-2.6
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/smp_lock.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/smp_lock.h | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/smp_lock.h b/include/linux/smp_lock.h index aab3a4cff4e..813be59bf34 100644 --- a/include/linux/smp_lock.h +++ b/include/linux/smp_lock.h @@ -27,11 +27,24 @@ static inline int reacquire_kernel_lock(struct task_struct *task) extern void __lockfunc lock_kernel(void) __acquires(kernel_lock); extern void __lockfunc unlock_kernel(void) __releases(kernel_lock); +/* + * Various legacy drivers don't really need the BKL in a specific + * function, but they *do* need to know that the BKL became available. + * This function just avoids wrapping a bunch of lock/unlock pairs + * around code which doesn't really need it. + */ +static inline void cycle_kernel_lock(void) +{ + lock_kernel(); + unlock_kernel(); +} + #else #define lock_kernel() do { } while(0) #define unlock_kernel() do { } while(0) #define release_kernel_lock(task) do { } while(0) +#define cycle_kernel_lock() do { } while(0) #define reacquire_kernel_lock(task) 0 #define kernel_locked() 1 |