From 80eb4a6f89bbf8e8318e108701bad11451efb2df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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 <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, 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c
index 5d1e6d6ce684..49225ddb9d70 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 b14f015008ad..0414e021a91c 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 @@ do_entUna(void * va, unsigned long opcode, unsigned long reg,
 	 * 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));
-- 
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