BKL: That's all, folks

This removes the implementation of the big kernel lock,
at last. A lot of people have worked on this in the
past, I so the credit for this patch should be with
everyone who participated in the hunt.

The names on the Cc list are the people that were the
most active in this, according to the recorded git
history, in alphabetical order.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-25 22:52:22 +01:00
parent ae7eb8979c
commit 4ba8216cd9
7 changed files with 2 additions and 232 deletions

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@@ -69,11 +69,6 @@ config BROKEN_ON_SMP
depends on BROKEN || !SMP
default y
config LOCK_KERNEL
bool
depends on (SMP || PREEMPT) && BKL
default y
config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
int
default 32 if !UML