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Subject[PATCH 05/18] alpha: kill big kernel lock
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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 <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
---
arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c | 5 -----
arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c | 3 ---
2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 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 <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/smp.h>
-#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
#include <linux/stddef.h>
#include <linux/syscalls.h>
#include <linux/unistd.h>
@@ -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 <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/tty.h>
#include <linux/delay.h>
-#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/kallsyms.h>
@@ -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));
--
1.7.1


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