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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2011-05-20 15:36:52 +1000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2011-05-20 15:36:52 +1000
commit880102e78547c1db158a17e36cf0cdd98e7ad710 (patch)
tree3fff9cc54c44dafe275cfabefb96c589e08d971d /kernel/mutex.c
parent3d07f0e83d4323d2cd45cc583f7cf1957aca3cac (diff)
parent39ab05c8e0b519ff0a04a869f065746e6e8c3d95 (diff)
Merge remote branch 'origin/master' into merge
Manual merge of arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c and add missing scheduler_ipi() call to arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/interrupt.c Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/mutex.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/mutex.c9
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/mutex.c b/kernel/mutex.c
index c4195fa9890..2c938e2337c 100644
--- a/kernel/mutex.c
+++ b/kernel/mutex.c
@@ -160,14 +160,7 @@ __mutex_lock_common(struct mutex *lock, long state, unsigned int subclass,
*/
for (;;) {
- struct thread_info *owner;
-
- /*
- * If we own the BKL, then don't spin. The owner of
- * the mutex might be waiting on us to release the BKL.
- */
- if (unlikely(current->lock_depth >= 0))
- break;
+ struct task_struct *owner;
/*
* If there's an owner, wait for it to either