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>
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