linux/drivers/staging
Hans Verkuil 5126f2590b [media] v4l2-dev: add flag to have the core lock all file operations
This used to be the default if the lock pointer was set, but now that lock is by
default only used for ioctl serialization. Those drivers that already used
core locking have this flag set explicitly, except for some drivers where
it was obvious that there was no need to serialize any file operations other
than ioctl.

The drivers that didn't need this flag were:

drivers/media/radio/dsbr100.c
drivers/media/radio/radio-isa.c
drivers/media/radio/radio-keene.c
drivers/media/radio/radio-miropcm20.c
drivers/media/radio/radio-mr800.c
drivers/media/radio/radio-tea5764.c
drivers/media/radio/radio-timb.c
drivers/media/video/vivi.c
sound/i2c/other/tea575x-tuner.c

The other drivers that use core locking and where it was not immediately
obvious that this flag wasn't needed were changed so that the flag is set
together with a comment that that driver needs work to avoid having to
set that flag. This will often involve taking the core lock in the fops
themselves.

Eventually this flag should go and it should not be used in new drivers.

There are a few reasons why we want to avoid core locking of non-ioctl
fops: in the case of mmap this can lead to a deadlock in rare situations
since when mmap is called the mmap_sem is held and it is possible for
other parts of the code to take that lock as well (copy_from_user()/copy_to_user()
perform a down_read(&mm->mmap_sem) when a page fault occurs).

It is very unlikely that that happens since the core lock serializes all
fops, but the kernel warns about it if lock validation is turned on.

For poll it is also undesirable to take the core lock as that can introduce
increased latency. The same is true for read/write.

While it was possible to make flags or something to turn on/off taking the
core lock for each file operation, in practice it is much simpler to just
not take it at all except for ioctl and leave it to the driver to take the
lock. There are only a handful fops compared to the zillion ioctls we have.

I also wanted to make it obvious which drivers still take the lock for all
fops, so that's why I chose to have drivers set it explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2012-05-14 09:19:38 -03:00
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android Merge tag 'v3.4-rc3' into staging/for_v3.5 2012-04-19 09:23:28 -03:00
asus_oled Documentation: remove references to /etc/modprobe.conf 2012-03-30 16:03:15 -07:00
bcm Staging: bcm: fix possible memory leak of 'pstAddIndication' in CmHost.c and removes a whitespace 2012-03-02 16:36:55 -08:00
comedi Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
cptm1217
crystalhd Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
cxt1e1 Merge branch 'staging-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging 2012-01-09 12:18:17 -08:00
echo
et131x Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
frontier Staging: frontier: Fix checkpatch.pl issue. 2012-02-24 12:03:12 -08:00
ft1000 Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
iio staging: iio: hmc5843: Fix crash in probe function. 2012-04-12 14:34:31 -07:00
keucr USB merge for 3.4-rc1 2012-03-20 11:26:30 -07:00
line6 staging: line6: separate handling of buffer allocation and stream startup 2012-02-09 09:14:35 -08:00
media [media] v4l2-dev: add flag to have the core lock all file operations 2012-05-14 09:19:38 -03:00
mei watchdog: fix set_timeout operations 2012-03-27 20:08:09 +02:00
nvec staging: nvec: Fix Kconfig dependencies 2012-01-31 10:28:00 -08:00
octeon staging/octeon: Fix PHY binding in octeon-ethernet driver. 2012-02-24 12:03:15 -08:00
olpc_dcon Staging: olpc_dcon.c: obsolete use of strict_stroul 2011-12-08 15:01:49 -08:00
omapdrm staging: drm/omap: move where DMM driver is registered 2012-04-10 09:19:29 -07:00
ozwpan staging: ozwpan: Added new maintainer for ozwpan 2012-04-10 09:18:59 -07:00
panel Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
phison
quatech_usb2 USB: serial: quatech_usb2.c: use module_usb_serial_driver 2012-02-28 13:11:27 -08:00
quickstart Staging: quickstart: Fix compilation warning on 64 bit arch 2012-02-13 20:08:56 -08:00
ramster staging: ramster: unbreak my heart 2012-04-10 09:16:19 -07:00
rtl8187se usermodehelper: use UMH_WAIT_PROC consistently 2012-03-23 16:58:41 -07:00
rtl8192e usermodehelper: use UMH_WAIT_PROC consistently 2012-03-23 16:58:41 -07:00
rtl8192u Merge branch 'kmap_atomic' of git://github.com/congwang/linux 2012-03-21 09:40:26 -07:00
rtl8712 staging: r8712u: Fix Smatch warning 2012-03-07 13:36:45 -08:00
rts5139 staging: Update TODO for rts5139 and rts_pstor 2012-02-24 12:03:14 -08:00
rts_pstor Staging: rts_pstor: off by one in for loop 2012-04-10 09:18:59 -07:00
sbe-2t3e3 Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
sep staging: sep: Fix sign of error 2012-04-10 09:14:39 -07:00
serial
serqt_usb2 USB: serial: serqt_usb2.c: use module_usb_serial_driver 2012-02-28 13:11:30 -08:00
slicoss staging: clean up Greg's email address in some TODO files 2012-02-15 14:45:40 -08:00
sm7xx includecheck: delete any duplicate instances of module.h 2012-02-28 19:31:56 -05:00
speakup TTY: speakup, do not use serialP 2012-03-08 11:47:02 -08:00
ste_rmi4 ARM: More device tree support updates 2012-03-28 12:34:33 -07:00
telephony Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h 2012-03-28 15:58:21 -07:00
tidspbridge Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
usbip Staging: usbip: Remove commented code. 2012-02-24 11:59:57 -08:00
vme staging/vme: Fix module parameters 2012-04-10 09:14:39 -07:00
vt6655 Staging: vt6655-6: check keysize before memcpy() 2012-04-10 09:17:34 -07:00
vt6656 staging: vt6656: Don't leak memory in drivers/staging/vt6656/ioctl.c::private_ioctl() 2012-04-12 14:34:31 -07:00
winbond
wlags49_h2 Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h 2012-03-28 15:58:21 -07:00
wlags49_h25
wlan-ng Staging: wlan-ng: still setting wrong data 2012-02-29 15:55:52 -08:00
xgifb staging/xgifb: fix display on XGI Volari Z11m cards 2012-04-10 09:51:49 -07:00
zcache Cleanups: rename of flush to invalidate, moving reporting of statistics 2012-03-22 19:52:47 -07:00
zram Merge branch 'kmap_atomic' of git://github.com/congwang/linux 2012-03-21 09:40:26 -07:00
zsmalloc staging: zsmalloc: fix memory leak 2012-04-10 09:18:59 -07:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'drm-nouveau-destage' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux 2012-03-22 13:27:02 -07:00
Makefile staging: ozwpan: Plumbed in Kconfig and Kbuild 2012-02-24 09:29:24 -08:00
staging.c