Now that the notifier chain is gone there are no other users and it's pointless to nest tick_device_lock inside of clockevents_lock because there is no other use case. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- kernel/time/tick-common.c | 22 +++++----------------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) Index: tip/kernel/time/tick-common.c =================================================================== --- tip.orig/kernel/time/tick-common.c +++ tip/kernel/time/tick-common.c @@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct tick_device, tick_ ktime_t tick_next_period; ktime_t tick_period; int tick_do_timer_cpu __read_mostly = TICK_DO_TIMER_BOOT; -static DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(tick_device_lock); /* * Debugging: see timer_list.c @@ -203,16 +202,14 @@ static void tick_setup_device(struct tic } /* - * Check, if the new registered device should be used. + * Check, if the new registered device should be used. Called with + * clockevents_lock held and interrupts disabled. */ void tick_check_new_device(struct clock_event_device *newdev) { struct clock_event_device *curdev; struct tick_device *td; int cpu; - unsigned long flags; - - raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&tick_device_lock, flags); cpu = smp_processor_id(); if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, newdev->cpumask)) @@ -270,8 +267,6 @@ void tick_check_new_device(struct clock_ tick_setup_device(td, newdev, cpu, cpumask_of(cpu)); if (newdev->features & CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_ONESHOT) tick_oneshot_notify(); - - raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tick_device_lock, flags); return; out_bc: @@ -279,7 +274,6 @@ out_bc: * Can the new device be used as a broadcast device ? */ tick_install_broadcast_device(newdev); - raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tick_device_lock, flags); } /* @@ -308,9 +302,7 @@ static void tick_shutdown(unsigned int * { struct tick_device *td = &per_cpu(tick_cpu_device, *cpup); struct clock_event_device *dev = td->evtdev; - unsigned long flags; - raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&tick_device_lock, flags); td->mode = TICKDEV_MODE_PERIODIC; if (dev) { /* @@ -322,26 +314,20 @@ static void tick_shutdown(unsigned int * dev->event_handler = clockevents_handle_noop; td->evtdev = NULL; } - raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tick_device_lock, flags); } static void tick_suspend(void) { struct tick_device *td = &__get_cpu_var(tick_cpu_device); - unsigned long flags; - raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&tick_device_lock, flags); clockevents_shutdown(td->evtdev); - raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tick_device_lock, flags); } static void tick_resume(void) { struct tick_device *td = &__get_cpu_var(tick_cpu_device); - unsigned long flags; int broadcast = tick_resume_broadcast(); - raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&tick_device_lock, flags); clockevents_set_mode(td->evtdev, CLOCK_EVT_MODE_RESUME); if (!broadcast) { @@ -350,9 +336,11 @@ static void tick_resume(void) else tick_resume_oneshot(); } - raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tick_device_lock, flags); } +/* + * Called with clockevents_lock held and interrupts disabled + */ void tick_notify(unsigned long reason, void *dev) { switch (reason) { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/