From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:54:16 +0000 (+1000)
Subject: [POWERPC] fix spin lock nesting in hvc_iseries
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.19-rc1~219^2~7
X-Git-Url: https://openfabrics.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d86d9b8cab45adf64e2ea8fe975bec3282b5de81;p=~shefty%2Frdma-dev.git

[POWERPC] fix spin lock nesting in hvc_iseries

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@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
---

diff --git a/drivers/char/hvc_iseries.c b/drivers/char/hvc_iseries.c
index 4747729459c..8b6f197e5f8 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hvc_iseries.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hvc_iseries.c
@@ -153,9 +153,7 @@ static int put_chars(uint32_t vtermno, const char *buf, int count)
 	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;
 	}
@@ -171,11 +169,8 @@ static int put_chars(uint32_t vtermno, const char *buf, int count)
 
 		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);