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-rw-r--r--include/linux/counter.h7
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/counter.h b/include/linux/counter.h
index 22b14a552b1d..0fd99e255a50 100644
--- a/include/linux/counter.h
+++ b/include/linux/counter.h
@@ -297,7 +297,6 @@ struct counter_ops {
* @events: queue of detected Counter events
* @events_wait: wait queue to allow blocking reads of Counter events
* @events_lock: lock to protect Counter events queue read operations
- * @chrdev_lock: lock to limit chrdev to a single open at a time
* @ops_exist_lock: lock to prevent use during removal
*/
struct counter_device {
@@ -325,12 +324,6 @@ struct counter_device {
DECLARE_KFIFO_PTR(events, struct counter_event);
wait_queue_head_t events_wait;
struct mutex events_lock;
- /*
- * chrdev_lock is locked by counter_chrdev_open() and unlocked by
- * counter_chrdev_release(), so a mutex is not possible here because
- * chrdev_lock will invariably be held when returning to user space
- */
- atomic_t chrdev_lock;
struct mutex ops_exist_lock;
};