The lock_kernel() calls in the open() function are unnecessary because
misc_register() is called last in module_init() and concurrent open()
calls are handled by other means.
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Locking added so that multithreaded applications can now do writes
from different threads without the risk of storage corruption.
Signed-off-by: Melissa Howland <melissah@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const". Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data. In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reduce the max. buffer size for the monwriter device to prevent a
possible problem with the z/VM monitor service.
Signed-off-by: Melissa Howland <melissah@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Fix length on kzalloc for data buffer so as to not overwrite
unallocated storage.
Signed-off-by: Melissa Howland <melissah@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Make max_bufs a global (per linux guest) limit.
Signed-off-by: Melissa Howland <melissah@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
This patch delivers a new Linux API in the form of a misc char
device that is useable from user space and allows write access
to the z/VM APPLDATA Monitor Records collected by the *MONITOR
System Service of z/VM.
Signed-off-by: Melissa Howland <melissah@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
