tree c4a42d45957362aa8391938ae3e11496321c19d8
parent 53f1b1433da7eac2607a4a0898a221a4485fd732
author David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> 1216873833 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1216921653 -0700

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>