[PATCH 46/76] vt: remove bogus lock dropping

Alan Cox
2008-10-05T16:21:49Z

For hysterical raisins the vt layer drops and retakes locks in the write
method. This is a left over from the days when user/kernel data was passed
directly to the tty not pre-buffered.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
---

drivers/char/vt.c | 18 ------------------
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/vt.c b/drivers/char/vt.c
index 05ca1c5..ec94521 100644
--- a/drivers/char/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/char/vt.c
@@ -2136,27 +2136,9 @@ static int do_con_write(struct tty_struct *tty, const unsigned char *buf, int co
release_console_sem();
return 0;
}
- release_console_sem();
-
orig_buf = buf;
orig_count = count;

- /* At this point 'buf' is guaranteed to be a kernel buffer
- * and therefore no access to userspace (and therefore sleeping)
- * will be needed. The con_buf_mtx serializes all tty based
- * console rendering and vcs write/read operations. We hold
- * the console spinlock during the entire write.
- */
-
- acquire_console_sem();
-
- vc = tty->driver_data;
- if (vc == NULL) {
- printk(KERN_ERR "vt: argh, driver_data _became_ NULL !\n");
- release_console_sem();
- goto out;
- }
-
himask = vc->vc_hi_font_mask;
charmask = himask ? 0x1ff : 0xff;