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>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 2b97418c67e2..6f440d82b58d 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -470,15 +470,6 @@ config DEBUG_MUTEXES
          This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
          reported.
 
-config BKL
-        bool "Big Kernel Lock" if (SMP || PREEMPT)
-        default y
-        help
-          This is the traditional lock that is used in old code instead
-          of proper locking. All drivers that use the BKL should depend
-          on this symbol.
-          Say Y here unless you are working on removing the BKL.
-
 config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
         bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
         depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT