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alpha: kill big kernel lock
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All uses of the BKL on alpha are totally bogus, nothing
is really protected by this. Remove the remaining users
so we don't have to mark alpha as 'depends on BKL'.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
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arndb authored and mattst88 committed Sep 19, 2010
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5 changes: 0 additions & 5 deletions arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c
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#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/smp.h>
#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
#include <linux/stddef.h>
#include <linux/syscalls.h>
#include <linux/unistd.h>
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{
struct mm_struct *mm;

lock_kernel();
mm = current->mm;
mm->end_code = bss_start + bss_len;
mm->start_brk = bss_start + bss_len;
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printk("set_program_attributes(%lx %lx %lx %lx)\n",
text_start, text_len, bss_start, bss_len);
#endif
unlock_kernel();
return 0;
}

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long error;
int __user *min_buf_size_ptr;

lock_kernel();
switch (code) {
case PL_SET:
if (get_user(error, &args->set.nbytes))
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error = -EOPNOTSUPP;
break;
};
unlock_kernel();
return error;
}

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3 changes: 0 additions & 3 deletions arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c
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#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/tty.h>
#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/kallsyms.h>
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return;
}

lock_kernel();
printk("Bad unaligned kernel access at %016lx: %p %lx %lu\n",
pc, va, opcode, reg);
do_exit(SIGSEGV);
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* Yikes! No one to forward the exception to.
* Since the registers are in a weird format, dump them ourselves.
*/
lock_kernel();

printk("%s(%d): unhandled unaligned exception\n",
current->comm, task_pid_nr(current));
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