init: Remove the BKL from startup code

I have shown by code review that no driver takes
the BKL at init time any more, so whatever the
init code was locking against is no longer there
and it is now safe to remove the BKL there.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 086d36316805..8047ca5a8237 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -734,13 +734,6 @@ __acquires(kernel_lock)
                 return -1;
         }
 
-        /*
-         * When this gets called we hold the BKL which means that
-         * preemption is disabled. Various trace selftests however
-         * need to disable and enable preemption for successful tests.
-         * So we drop the BKL here and grab it after the tests again.
-         */
-        unlock_kernel();
         mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock);
 
         tracing_selftest_running = true;
@@ -822,7 +815,6 @@ __acquires(kernel_lock)
 #endif
 
  out_unlock:
-        lock_kernel();
         return ret;
 }