drm: Remove utterly bogus preempt_disable() sections

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Sat Jul 23 2011 - 06:45:16 EST


commit 27641c3f (drm/vblank: Add support for precise vblank
timestamping) adds preempt_disable()/enable() around a spin locked
section with the comments:

* Disable preemption, so vblank_time_lock is held as short as
* possible, even under a kernel with PREEMPT_RT patches.

/* Disable preemption while holding vblank_time_lock. Do
* it explicitely to guard against PREEMPT_RT kernel.

Just that this has never been tested on a RT kernel which would have
granted that nonsense with a might_sleep() warning because
dev->vblank_time_lock is converted to a "sleeping" spinlock on RT.

So this is activly wrong on RT and superflous on mainline. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c | 9 ---------
1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c
@@ -109,10 +109,7 @@ static void vblank_disable_and_save(stru
/* Prevent vblank irq processing while disabling vblank irqs,
* so no updates of timestamps or count can happen after we've
* disabled. Needed to prevent races in case of delayed irq's.
- * Disable preemption, so vblank_time_lock is held as short as
- * possible, even under a kernel with PREEMPT_RT patches.
*/
- preempt_disable();
spin_lock_irqsave(&dev->vblank_time_lock, irqflags);

dev->driver->disable_vblank(dev, crtc);
@@ -163,7 +160,6 @@ static void vblank_disable_and_save(stru
clear_vblank_timestamps(dev, crtc);

spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->vblank_time_lock, irqflags);
- preempt_enable();
}

static void vblank_disable_fn(unsigned long arg)
@@ -875,10 +871,6 @@ int drm_vblank_get(struct drm_device *de
spin_lock_irqsave(&dev->vbl_lock, irqflags);
/* Going from 0->1 means we have to enable interrupts again */
if (atomic_add_return(1, &dev->vblank_refcount[crtc]) == 1) {
- /* Disable preemption while holding vblank_time_lock. Do
- * it explicitely to guard against PREEMPT_RT kernel.
- */
- preempt_disable();
spin_lock_irqsave(&dev->vblank_time_lock, irqflags2);
if (!dev->vblank_enabled[crtc]) {
/* Enable vblank irqs under vblank_time_lock protection.
@@ -898,7 +890,6 @@ int drm_vblank_get(struct drm_device *de
}
}
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->vblank_time_lock, irqflags2);
- preempt_enable();
} else {
if (!dev->vblank_enabled[crtc]) {
atomic_dec(&dev->vblank_refcount[crtc]);
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