Commit efbec1cd authored by Arnd Bergmann's avatar Arnd Bergmann

tlclk: remove big kernel lock

This driver already has a global mutex, so let's just
use that in the open function instead of the BKL.
It may not even be needed there, but this patch should
have the smallest impact.
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Mark Gross <mark.gross@intel.com>
parent c4a04727
......@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
#include <linux/ioport.h>
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/timer.h>
#include <linux/sysfs.h>
#include <linux/device.h>
......@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ static int tlclk_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
{
int result;
lock_kernel();
mutex_lock(&tlclk_mutex);
if (test_and_set_bit(0, &useflags)) {
result = -EBUSY;
/* this legacy device is always one per system and it doesn't
......@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ static int tlclk_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
inb(TLCLK_REG6); /* Clear interrupt events */
out:
unlock_kernel();
mutex_unlock(&tlclk_mutex);
return result;
}
......
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