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Commit 7957f0a8 authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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Fix build failure due to hwirq.h needing smp_lock.h



Arnd Bergmann did an automated scripting run to find left-over instances
of <linux/smp_lock.h>, and had made it trigger it on the normal BKL use
of lock_kernel and unlock_lernel (and apparently release_kernel_lock and
reacquire_kernel_lock too, used by the scheduler).

That resulted in commit 451a3c24 ("BKL: remove extraneous #include
<smp_lock.h>").

However, hardirq.h was the only remaining user of the old
'kernel_locked()' interface, and Arnd's script hadn't checked for that.
So depending on your configuration and what header files had been
included, you would get errors like "implicit declaration of function
'kernel_locked'" during the build.

The right fix is not to just re-instate the smp_lock.h include - it is
to just remove 'kernel_locked()' entirely, since the only use was this
one special low-level detail.  Just make hardirq.h do it directly.

In fact this simplifies and clarifies the code, because some trivial
analysis makes it clear that hardirq.h only ever used _one_ of the two
definitions of kernel_locked(), so we can remove the other one entirely.

Reported-by: default avatarZimny Lech <napohybelskurwysynom2010@gmail.com>
Reported-and-acked-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 460781b5
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