From 80eb4a6f89bbf8e8318e108701bad11451efb2df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnd Bergmann Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:10:10 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] alpha: kill big kernel lock All uses of the BKL on alpha are totally bogus, nothing is really protected by this. Remove the remaining users so we don't have to mark alpha as 'depends on BKL'. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: Matt Turner Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org --- arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c | 5 ----- arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c | 3 --- 2 files changed, 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c index 5d1e6d6..49225dd 100644 --- a/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c +++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c @@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ #include #include #include -#include #include #include #include @@ -69,7 +68,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(osf_set_program_attributes, unsigned long, text_start, { struct mm_struct *mm; - lock_kernel(); mm = current->mm; mm->end_code = bss_start + bss_len; mm->start_brk = bss_start + bss_len; @@ -78,7 +76,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(osf_set_program_attributes, unsigned long, text_start, printk("set_program_attributes(%lx %lx %lx %lx)\n", text_start, text_len, bss_start, bss_len); #endif - unlock_kernel(); return 0; } @@ -517,7 +514,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(osf_proplist_syscall, enum pl_code, code, long error; int __user *min_buf_size_ptr; - lock_kernel(); switch (code) { case PL_SET: if (get_user(error, &args->set.nbytes)) @@ -547,7 +543,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(osf_proplist_syscall, enum pl_code, code, error = -EOPNOTSUPP; break; }; - unlock_kernel(); return error; } diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c index b14f015..0414e02 100644 --- a/arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c +++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c @@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ #include #include #include -#include #include #include #include @@ -623,7 +622,6 @@ do_entUna(void * va, unsigned long opcode, unsigned long reg, return; } - lock_kernel(); printk("Bad unaligned kernel access at %016lx: %p %lx %lu\n", pc, va, opcode, reg); do_exit(SIGSEGV); @@ -646,7 +644,6 @@ got_exception: * Yikes! No one to forward the exception to. * Since the registers are in a weird format, dump them ourselves. */ - lock_kernel(); printk("%s(%d): unhandled unaligned exception\n", current->comm, task_pid_nr(current)); -- 2.7.4