vc: Locking clean up

The virtual console layer uses the BKL for various things that don't really
need it. Clean them out.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

drivers/char/selection.c

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 #include <linux/selection.h>
 #include <linux/tiocl.h>
 #include <linux/console.h>
+#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
 
 /* Don't take this from <ctype.h>: 011-015 on the screen aren't spaces */
 #define isspace(c)	((c) == ' ')
@@ -312,6 +313,8 @@ int paste_selection(struct tty_struct *tty)
 	struct  tty_ldisc *ld;
 	DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(wait, current);
 
+	lock_kernel();
+
 	acquire_console_sem();
 	poke_blanked_console();
 	release_console_sem();
@@ -335,5 +338,6 @@ int paste_selection(struct tty_struct *tty)
 	__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
 
 	tty_ldisc_deref(ld);
+	unlock_kernel();
 	return 0;
 }

drivers/char/vt.c

@@ -287,8 +287,12 @@ static inline unsigned short *screenpos(struct vc_data *vc, int offset, int view
 	return p;
 }
 
+/* Called  from the keyboard irq path.. */
 static inline void scrolldelta(int lines)
 {
+	/* FIXME */
+	/* scrolldelta needs some kind of consistency lock, but the BKL was
+	   and still is not protecting versus the scheduled back end */
 	scrollback_delta += lines;
 	schedule_console_callback();
 }
@@ -2616,8 +2620,6 @@ int tioclinux(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned long arg)
 		return -EFAULT;
 	ret = 0;
 
-	lock_kernel();
-
 	switch (type)
 	{
 		case TIOCL_SETSEL:
@@ -2692,7 +2694,6 @@ int tioclinux(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned long arg)
 			ret = -EINVAL;
 			break;
 	}
-	unlock_kernel();
 	return ret;
 }