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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2012-02-28 19:46:04 +0000
committerJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>2012-03-15 18:17:57 -0700
commit6c260d586343f7f78239d90aa9e2cfed02f74ff3 (patch)
treecd5fc9a28499a098185878bd186736091e965ab4 /arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
parenttime: Remove bogus comments (diff)
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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(). Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c5
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
index b07ba9393564..33385c18e5d3 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,