diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index e8978e85f084..a3c54e46ce54 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: a4ca1298d8a0472a45624fa5fb99f90f0f367187
+refs/heads/master: 6c260d586343f7f78239d90aa9e2cfed02f74ff3
diff --git a/trunk/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c b/trunk/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
index b07ba9393564..33385c18e5d3 100644
--- a/trunk/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
+++ b/trunk/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
@@ -80,12 +80,7 @@ early_param("vsyscall", vsyscall_setup);
 
 void update_vsyscall_tz(void)
 {
-	unsigned long flags;
-
-	write_seqlock_irqsave(&vsyscall_gtod_data.lock, flags);
-	/* sys_tz has changed */
 	vsyscall_gtod_data.sys_tz = sys_tz;
-	write_sequnlock_irqrestore(&vsyscall_gtod_data.lock, flags);
 }
 
 void update_vsyscall(struct timespec *wall_time, struct timespec *wtm,