rtc: Remove BKL from efirtc
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:14:03 +0000 (15:14 +0200)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:36:51 +0000 (17:36 +0200)
BKL locking came to efirtc via the big BKL push down, but the access
to the efi functions is protected by efi_rtc_lock already.

Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <20091010153350.046644063@linutronix.de>

drivers/char/efirtc.c

index 34d15d5..26a47dc 100644 (file)
@@ -27,8 +27,6 @@
  *     - Add module support
  */
 
-
-#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
 #include <linux/types.h>
 #include <linux/errno.h>
 #include <linux/miscdevice.h>
@@ -174,13 +172,12 @@ static long efi_rtc_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
                        return -EINVAL;
 
                case RTC_RD_TIME:
-                       lock_kernel();
                        spin_lock_irqsave(&efi_rtc_lock, flags);
 
                        status = efi.get_time(&eft, &cap);
 
                        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&efi_rtc_lock,flags);
-                       unlock_kernel();
+
                        if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) {
                                /* should never happen */
                                printk(KERN_ERR "efitime: can't read time\n");
@@ -202,13 +199,11 @@ static long efi_rtc_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
 
                        convert_to_efi_time(&wtime, &eft);
 
-                       lock_kernel();
                        spin_lock_irqsave(&efi_rtc_lock, flags);
 
                        status = efi.set_time(&eft);
 
                        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&efi_rtc_lock,flags);
-                       unlock_kernel();
 
                        return status == EFI_SUCCESS ? 0 : -EINVAL;
 
@@ -224,7 +219,6 @@ static long efi_rtc_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
 
                        convert_to_efi_time(&wtime, &eft);
 
-                       lock_kernel();
                        spin_lock_irqsave(&efi_rtc_lock, flags);
                        /*
                         * XXX Fixme:
@@ -235,19 +229,16 @@ static long efi_rtc_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
                        status = efi.set_wakeup_time((efi_bool_t)enabled, &eft);
 
                        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&efi_rtc_lock,flags);
-                       unlock_kernel();
 
                        return status == EFI_SUCCESS ? 0 : -EINVAL;
 
                case RTC_WKALM_RD:
 
-                       lock_kernel();
                        spin_lock_irqsave(&efi_rtc_lock, flags);
 
                        status = efi.get_wakeup_time((efi_bool_t *)&enabled, (efi_bool_t *)&pending, &eft);
 
                        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&efi_rtc_lock,flags);
-                       unlock_kernel();
 
                        if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) return -EINVAL;
 
@@ -277,7 +268,6 @@ static int efi_rtc_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
         * We do accept multiple open files at the same time as we
         * synchronize on the per call operation.
         */
-       cycle_kernel_lock();
        return 0;
 }