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| author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2012-02-28 19:10:46 +0100 |
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| committer | Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2012-07-06 22:00:08 -0400 |
| commit | 118bdeca23d721e7e74b686bdb0f9ab612b562e8 (patch) | |
| tree | f0e355a55896b2b749aba9559da6eb37ef788ac7 /arch | |
| parent | 888effdeb3367175b5b35c03e482b88aefee0e54 (diff) | |
x86: vdso: Remove bogus locking in update_vsyscall_tz()
Changing the sequence count in update_vsyscall_tz() is completely
pointless.
The vdso code copies the data unprotected. There is no point to change
this as sys_tz is nowhere protected at all. See sys_gettimeofday().
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c index e4d4a22e8b94..f04adbd6f6f4 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c @@ -80,12 +80,7 @@ early_param("vsyscall", vsyscall_setup); void update_vsyscall_tz(void) { - unsigned long flags; - - write_seqlock_irqsave(&vsyscall_gtod_data.lock, flags); - /* sys_tz has changed */ vsyscall_gtod_data.sys_tz = sys_tz; - write_sequnlock_irqrestore(&vsyscall_gtod_data.lock, flags); } void update_vsyscall(struct timespec *wall_time, struct timespec *wtm, |