[POWERPC] fix spin lock nesting in hvc_iseries

Stephen Rothwell sfr at canb.auug.org.au
Tue Sep 26 11:54:16 EST 2006


We had nested spinlocks using the same flags variable, but it turns out
that we don't need the nested locks at all (the lock protects a static
buffer that we aren't using here), so just remove the extra locks.

Spotted by Alexey Dobriyan.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr at canb.auug.org.au>
---
 drivers/char/hvc_iseries.c |    7 +------
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr at canb.auug.org.au

diff --git a/drivers/char/hvc_iseries.c b/drivers/char/hvc_iseries.c
index ea36201..f144a94 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hvc_iseries.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hvc_iseries.c
@@ -154,9 +154,7 @@ static int put_chars(uint32_t vtermno, c
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&consolelock, flags);
 
 	if (viochar_is_console(pi) && !viopath_isactive(pi->lp)) {
-		spin_lock_irqsave(&consoleloglock, flags);
 		HvCall_writeLogBuffer(buf, count);
-		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&consoleloglock, flags);
 		sent = count;
 		goto done;
 	}
@@ -172,11 +170,8 @@ static int put_chars(uint32_t vtermno, c
 
 		len = (count > VIOCHAR_MAX_DATA) ? VIOCHAR_MAX_DATA : count;
 
-		if (viochar_is_console(pi)) {
-			spin_lock_irqsave(&consoleloglock, flags);
+		if (viochar_is_console(pi))
 			HvCall_writeLogBuffer(buf, len);
-			spin_unlock_irqrestore(&consoleloglock, flags);
-		}
 
 		init_data_event(viochar, pi->lp);
 
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1.4.2.1




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