A number of driver functions are so obviously trivial that they do not need
the big kernel lock - at least not overtly. It turns out that the
acquisition of the BKL in driver open() functions can perform a sort of
poor-hacker's serialization function, delaying the open operation until the
driver is certain to have completed its initialization. Add a simple
cycle_kernel_lock() function for these cases to make it clear that there is
no need to *hold* the BKL, just to be sure that we can acquire it.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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