No need to hold the lock and disable interrupts for doing math. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/rtc/rtc-mc146818-lib.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-mc146818-lib.c +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-mc146818-lib.c @@ -135,7 +135,6 @@ int mc146818_set_time(struct rtc_time *t if (yrs > 255) /* They are unsigned */ return -EINVAL; - spin_lock_irqsave(&rtc_lock, flags); #ifdef CONFIG_MACH_DECSTATION real_yrs = yrs; leap_yr = ((!((yrs + 1900) % 4) && ((yrs + 1900) % 100)) || @@ -164,10 +163,8 @@ int mc146818_set_time(struct rtc_time *t /* These limits and adjustments are independent of * whether the chip is in binary mode or not. */ - if (yrs > 169) { - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rtc_lock, flags); + if (yrs > 169) return -EINVAL; - } if (yrs >= 100) yrs -= 100; @@ -183,6 +180,7 @@ int mc146818_set_time(struct rtc_time *t century = bin2bcd(century); } + spin_lock_irqsave(&rtc_lock, flags); save_control = CMOS_READ(RTC_CONTROL); CMOS_WRITE((save_control|RTC_SET), RTC_CONTROL); save_freq_select = CMOS_READ(RTC_FREQ_SELECT);