From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 09:45:12 +0000 (+0200) Subject: perf_counter: remove rq->lock usage X-Git-Tag: v2.6.31-rc1~383^2~394 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=849691a6cd40270ff5f4a8846d5f6bf8df663ffc;p=pandora-kernel.git perf_counter: remove rq->lock usage Now that all the task runtime clock users are gone, remove the ugly rq->lock usage from perf counters, which solves the nasty deadlock seen when a software task clock counter was read from an NMI overflow context. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Corey Ashford LKML-Reference: <20090406094518.531137582@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-diff-tree failed