diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c
index 5d1e6d6..49225dd 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/smp.h>
-#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
 #include <linux/stddef.h>
 #include <linux/syscalls.h>
 #include <linux/unistd.h>
@@ -69,7 +68,6 @@
 {
 	struct mm_struct *mm;
 
-	lock_kernel();
 	mm = current->mm;
 	mm->end_code = bss_start + bss_len;
 	mm->start_brk = bss_start + bss_len;
@@ -78,7 +76,6 @@
 	printk("set_program_attributes(%lx %lx %lx %lx)\n",
 		text_start, text_len, bss_start, bss_len);
 #endif
-	unlock_kernel();
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -517,7 +514,6 @@
 	long error;
 	int __user *min_buf_size_ptr;
 
-	lock_kernel();
 	switch (code) {
 	case PL_SET:
 		if (get_user(error, &args->set.nbytes))
@@ -547,7 +543,6 @@
 		error = -EOPNOTSUPP;
 		break;
 	};
-	unlock_kernel();
 	return error;
 }
 
diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c
index b14f015..0414e02 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/tty.h>
 #include <linux/delay.h>
-#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/kallsyms.h>
@@ -623,7 +622,6 @@
 		return;
 	}
 
-	lock_kernel();
 	printk("Bad unaligned kernel access at %016lx: %p %lx %lu\n",
 		pc, va, opcode, reg);
 	do_exit(SIGSEGV);
@@ -646,7 +644,6 @@
 	 * Yikes!  No one to forward the exception to.
 	 * Since the registers are in a weird format, dump them ourselves.
  	 */
-	lock_kernel();
 
 	printk("%s(%d): unhandled unaligned exception\n",
 	       current->comm, task_pid_nr(current));