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authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2010-09-11 18:38:03 +0200
committerArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2010-10-19 11:29:42 +0200
commit9a181c58617134822ae596339dbea076ef9b5cf7 (patch)
treeb90b52c0bcb4ae3057e5ddd403230415f4cb528a /arch/um/kernel
parentfa0d4c26be9f989816b30626f6c67d9e7ef867f8 (diff)
uml: kill big kernel lock
Three uml device drivers still use the big kernel lock, but all of them can be safely converted to using a per-driver mutex instead. Most likely this is not even necessary, so after further review these can and should be removed as well. The exec system call no longer requires the BKL either, so remove it from there, too. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/um/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/um/kernel/exec.c2
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/exec.c b/arch/um/kernel/exec.c
index cd145eda357..460ce86f401 100644
--- a/arch/um/kernel/exec.c
+++ b/arch/um/kernel/exec.c
@@ -78,13 +78,11 @@ long sys_execve(const char __user *file, char __user *__user *argv,
long error;
char *filename;
- lock_kernel();
filename = getname(file);
error = PTR_ERR(filename);
if (IS_ERR(filename)) goto out;
error = execve1(filename, argv, env);
putname(filename);
out:
- unlock_kernel();
return error;
}