i386: remove xtime_lock'ing around cpufreq notifier From: Daniel Walker The locking of the xtime_lock around the cpu notifier is unessesary now. At one time the tsc was used after a frequency change for timekeeping, but the re-write of timekeeping no longer uses the TSC unless the frequency is constant. The variables that are changed in this section of code had also once been used for timekeeping, but not any longer .. Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: john stultz Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- arch/i386/kernel/tsc.c | 8 +------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-) Index: linux/arch/i386/kernel/tsc.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/arch/i386/kernel/tsc.c +++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/tsc.c @@ -144,13 +144,10 @@ time_cpufreq_notifier(struct notifier_bl { struct cpufreq_freqs *freq = data; - if (val != CPUFREQ_RESUMECHANGE && val != CPUFREQ_SUSPENDCHANGE) - write_seqlock_irq(&xtime_lock); - if (!ref_freq) { if (!freq->old){ ref_freq = freq->new; - goto end; + return 0; } ref_freq = freq->old; loops_per_jiffy_ref = cpu_data[freq->cpu].loops_per_jiffy; @@ -176,9 +173,6 @@ time_cpufreq_notifier(struct notifier_bl } } } -end: - if (val != CPUFREQ_RESUMECHANGE && val != CPUFREQ_SUSPENDCHANGE) - write_sequnlock_irq(&xtime_lock); return 0; }