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 <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

diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c
index 5d1e6d6ce6843b136fb7810e74c86df16d86daf4..49225ddb9d70f5802f210973e47aba4c1cba0f67 100644 (file)
--- 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 b14f015008ada5e90d580b0589d4ff5144a1602e..0414e021a91c3ba8756674dea873f0dabd6c0abd 100644 (file)
--- 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));