The patch titled
revert "rtc: cdev lock_kernel() pushdown"
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
revert-rtc-cdev-lock_kernel-pushdown.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
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Subject: revert "rtc: cdev lock_kernel() pushdown"
From: David Brownell <dbrownell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Revert "rtc: cdev lock_kernel() pushdown" patch
(51a776fa7a7997e726d4a478eda0854c6f9143bd). The RTC framework does not
need BKL protection.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c | 12 +++---------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff -puN drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c~revert-rtc-cdev-lock_kernel-pushdown drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c
--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c~revert-rtc-cdev-lock_kernel-pushdown
+++ a/drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/rtc.h>
-#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
#include "rtc-core.h"
static dev_t rtc_devt;
@@ -27,11 +26,8 @@ static int rtc_dev_open(struct inode *in
struct rtc_device, char_dev);
const struct rtc_class_ops *ops = rtc->ops;
- lock_kernel();
- if (test_and_set_bit_lock(RTC_DEV_BUSY, &rtc->flags)) {
- err = -EBUSY;
- goto out;
- }
+ if (test_and_set_bit_lock(RTC_DEV_BUSY, &rtc->flags))
+ return -EBUSY;
file->private_data = rtc;
@@ -41,13 +37,11 @@ static int rtc_dev_open(struct inode *in
rtc->irq_data = 0;
spin_unlock_irq(&rtc->irq_lock);
- goto out;
+ return 0;
}
/* something has gone wrong */
clear_bit_unlock(RTC_DEV_BUSY, &rtc->flags);
-out:
- unlock_kernel();
return err;
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from dbrownell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
linux-next.patch
usb-hso-driver-fix-kconfig.patch
rtc-ds1307-alarm-support-for-ds1337-ds1339.patch
rtc-remove-some-nop-open-release-methods.patch
legacy-rtc-remove-needless-confusing-hpet_rtc_irq-option.patch
rtc-file-close-consistently-disables-repeating-irqs.patch
irq-warn-about-irqf_disabledirqf_shared.patch
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