vc: Locking clean up
The virtual console layer uses the BKL for various things that don't really
need it. Clean them out.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
diff --git a/drivers/char/vt.c b/drivers/char/vt.c
index 82f64ac..9f67ad9 100644
--- a/drivers/char/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/char/vt.c
@@ -287,8 +287,12 @@
return p;
}
+/* Called from the keyboard irq path.. */
static inline void scrolldelta(int lines)
{
+ /* FIXME */
+ /* scrolldelta needs some kind of consistency lock, but the BKL was
+ and still is not protecting versus the scheduled back end */
scrollback_delta += lines;
schedule_console_callback();
}
@@ -2616,8 +2620,6 @@
return -EFAULT;
ret = 0;
- lock_kernel();
-
switch (type)
{
case TIOCL_SETSEL:
@@ -2692,7 +2694,6 @@
ret = -EINVAL;
break;
}
- unlock_kernel();
return ret;
}