BKL: That's all, folks

This removes the implementation of the big kernel lock,
at last. A lot of people have worked on this in the
past, I so the credit for this patch should be with
everyone who participated in the hunt.

The names on the Cc list are the people that were the
most active in this, according to the recorded git
history, in alphabetical order.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
This commit is contained in:
Arnd Bergmann 2011-01-25 22:52:22 +01:00
parent ae7eb8979c
commit 4ba8216cd9
7 changed files with 2 additions and 232 deletions

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@ -93,13 +93,6 @@
*/
#define in_nmi() (preempt_count() & NMI_MASK)
#if defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT) && defined(CONFIG_BKL)
# include <linux/sched.h>
# define PREEMPT_INATOMIC_BASE (current->lock_depth >= 0)
#else
# define PREEMPT_INATOMIC_BASE 0
#endif
#if defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT)
# define PREEMPT_CHECK_OFFSET 1
#else
@ -113,7 +106,7 @@
* used in the general case to determine whether sleeping is possible.
* Do not use in_atomic() in driver code.
*/
#define in_atomic() ((preempt_count() & ~PREEMPT_ACTIVE) != PREEMPT_INATOMIC_BASE)
#define in_atomic() ((preempt_count() & ~PREEMPT_ACTIVE) != 0)
/*
* Check whether we were atomic before we did preempt_disable():