From 4ba8216cd90560bc402f52076f64d8546e8aefcb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:52:22 +0100 Subject: 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> --- lib/Kconfig.debug | 9 --------- 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'lib/Kconfig.debug') 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 -- cgit v1.2.2