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| author | Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> | 2010-07-04 00:02:26 +0200 |
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| committer | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2010-07-09 15:40:32 +0200 |
| commit | 5e3d20a68f63fc5a310687d81956c3b96e488b84 (patch) | |
| tree | 576da563442772fe7a492589c1e08c422ff02b1c /kernel | |
| parent | 815c4163b6c8ebf8152f42b0a5fd015cfdcedc78 (diff) | |
init: Remove the BKL from startup code
I have shown by code review that no driver takes
the BKL at init time any more, so whatever the
init code was locking against is no longer there
and it is now safe to remove the BKL there.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/trace.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index 086d3631680..8047ca5a823 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -734,13 +734,6 @@ __acquires(kernel_lock) return -1; } - /* - * When this gets called we hold the BKL which means that - * preemption is disabled. Various trace selftests however - * need to disable and enable preemption for successful tests. - * So we drop the BKL here and grab it after the tests again. - */ - unlock_kernel(); mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock); tracing_selftest_running = true; @@ -822,7 +815,6 @@ __acquires(kernel_lock) #endif out_unlock: - lock_kernel(); return ret; } |