[Openipmi-developer] [PATCH 11/12] ipmi: autoconvert trivial BKL users to private mutex

2010-07-12 Thread Arnd Bergmann
All these files use the big kernel lock in a trivial way to serialize their private file operations, typically resulting from an earlier semi-automatic pushdown from VFS. None of these drivers appears to want to lock against other code, and they all use the BKL as the top-level lock in their file

[Openipmi-developer] [PATCH 00/12] autoconvert trivial BKL users to private mutex

2010-07-12 Thread Arnd Bergmann
This is a repost of an earlier patch to remove those users of the big kernel lock that can be converted to a mutex using a simple script. The only use of the BKL is in file operations that are called without any other lock, so the new mutex is the top-level serialization and cannot introduce any