uio: uio_pci_generic: Remove useless spin_lock

The spin_lock in uio_pci_generic.c is only used in the interrupt
handler, which cannot be executed twice at the same time.
That makes the lock rather pointless. This patch removes it.

Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Anthony Foiani <anthony.foiani@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Anthony Foiani <anthony.foiani@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@hansjkoch.de>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/uio/uio_pci_generic.c b/drivers/uio/uio_pci_generic.c
index fc22e1e6f215..02bd47bdee1c 100644
--- a/drivers/uio/uio_pci_generic.c
+++ b/drivers/uio/uio_pci_generic.c
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
 #include <linux/pci.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/uio_driver.h>
-#include <linux/spinlock.h>
 
 #define DRIVER_VERSION  "0.01.0"
 #define DRIVER_AUTHOR   "Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>"
@@ -33,7 +32,6 @@
 struct uio_pci_generic_dev {
         struct uio_info info;
         struct pci_dev *pdev;
-        spinlock_t lock; /* guards command register accesses */
 };
 
 static inline struct uio_pci_generic_dev *
@@ -57,7 +55,6 @@ static irqreturn_t irqhandler(int irq, struct uio_info *info)
         BUILD_BUG_ON(PCI_COMMAND % 4);
         BUILD_BUG_ON(PCI_COMMAND + 2 != PCI_STATUS);
 
-        spin_lock_irq(&gdev->lock);
         pci_block_user_cfg_access(pdev);
 
         /* Read both command and status registers in a single 32-bit operation.
@@ -83,7 +80,6 @@ static irqreturn_t irqhandler(int irq, struct uio_info *info)
 done:
 
         pci_unblock_user_cfg_access(pdev);
-        spin_unlock_irq(&gdev->lock);
         return ret;
 }
 
@@ -158,7 +154,6 @@ static int __devinit probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
         gdev->info.irq_flags = IRQF_SHARED;
         gdev->info.handler = irqhandler;
         gdev->pdev = pdev;
-        spin_lock_init(&gdev->lock);
 
         if (uio_register_device(&pdev->dev, &gdev->info))
                 goto err_register;