cycle_kernel_lock() was added during the big BKL pushdown. It should ensure the serializiation against driver init code. In this case there is nothing to serialize. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Jeff Dike --- arch/um/drivers/random.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6-tip/arch/um/drivers/random.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-tip.orig/arch/um/drivers/random.c +++ linux-2.6-tip/arch/um/drivers/random.c @@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ * of the GNU General Public License, incorporated herein by reference. */ #include -#include #include #include #include @@ -34,8 +33,6 @@ static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(host_read static int rng_dev_open (struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) { - cycle_kernel_lock(); - /* enforce read-only access to this chrdev */ if ((filp->f_mode & FMODE_READ) == 0) return -EINVAL;