[PATCH] ioctl rework #2
- add ->unlocked_ioctl method and a do_ioctl wrapper in ioctl.c so all places calling ->ioctl get it. THis provides us a patch to migrate away from holding bkl across ioctl implementations. - add ->compat_ioctl method and call it in compat_sys_ioctl before doing the hash lookup for registered handlers. - streamline compat_sys_ioctl and move the complex error reporting into a function of its own From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@mellanox.co.il> Handle generic ioctl commands by falling back on static conversion functions in fs/compat_ioctl.c on -ENOIOCTLCMD code. From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@mellanox.co.il> With new unlocked_ioctl and ioctl_compat, ioctls can now be as fast as read/write. So lets use fget_light/fput_light there, to get some speedup in common case on SMP. Signed-off-by: Michael s. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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