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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:51:08 +0200
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] BKL: remove BKL from freevxfs
All uses of the BKL in freevxfs were the result of a pushdown into
code that doesn't really need it. As Christoph points out, this
is a read-only file system, which eliminates most of the races in
readdir/lookup.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
---
fs/freevxfs/vxfs_lookup.c | 14 ++------------
fs/freevxfs/vxfs_super.c | 10 ----------
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/freevxfs/vxfs_lookup.c b/fs/freevxfs/vxfs_lookup.c
index 0ec7bb2..6c5131d 100644
--- a/fs/freevxfs/vxfs_lookup.c
+++ b/fs/freevxfs/vxfs_lookup.c
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@
#include <linux/highmem.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/pagemap.h>
-#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
#include "vxfs.h"
#include "vxfs_dir.h"
@@ -212,16 +211,12 @@ vxfs_lookup(struct inode *dip, struct dentry *dp, struct nameidata *nd)
if (dp->d_name.len > VXFS_NAMELEN)
return ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);
- lock_kernel();
ino = vxfs_inode_by_name(dip, dp);
if (ino) {
ip = vxfs_iget(dip->i_sb, ino);
- if (IS_ERR(ip)) {
- unlock_kernel();
+ if (IS_ERR(ip))
return ERR_CAST(ip);
- }
}
- unlock_kernel();
d_add(dp, ip);
return NULL;
}
@@ -248,8 +243,6 @@ vxfs_readdir(struct file *fp, void *retp, filldir_t filler)
u_long page, npages, block, pblocks, nblocks, offset;
loff_t pos;
- lock_kernel();
-
switch ((long)fp->f_pos) {
case 0:
if (filler(retp, ".", 1, fp->f_pos, ip->i_ino, DT_DIR) < 0)
@@ -265,10 +258,8 @@ vxfs_readdir(struct file *fp, void *retp, filldir_t filler)
pos = fp->f_pos - 2;
- if (pos > VXFS_DIRROUND(ip->i_size)) {
- unlock_kernel();
+ if (pos > VXFS_DIRROUND(ip->i_size))
return 0;
- }
npages = dir_pages(ip);
nblocks = dir_blocks(ip);
@@ -327,6 +318,5 @@ vxfs_readdir(struct file *fp, void *retp, filldir_t filler)
done:
fp->f_pos = ((page << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT) | offset) + 2;
out:
- unlock_kernel();
return 0;
}
diff --git a/fs/freevxfs/vxfs_super.c b/fs/freevxfs/vxfs_super.c
index eb2b9e0..71b0148 100644
--- a/fs/freevxfs/vxfs_super.c
+++ b/fs/freevxfs/vxfs_super.c
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@
#include <linux/buffer_head.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
-#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
#include <linux/stat.h>
#include <linux/vfs.h>
#include <linux/mount.h>
@@ -81,16 +80,12 @@ vxfs_put_super(struct super_block *sbp)
{
struct vxfs_sb_info *infp = VXFS_SBI(sbp);
- lock_kernel();
-
vxfs_put_fake_inode(infp->vsi_fship);
vxfs_put_fake_inode(infp->vsi_ilist);
vxfs_put_fake_inode(infp->vsi_stilist);
brelse(infp->vsi_bp);
kfree(infp);
-
- unlock_kernel();
}
/**
@@ -159,14 +154,11 @@ static int vxfs_fill_super(struct super_block *sbp, void *dp, int silent)
struct inode *root;
int ret = -EINVAL;
- lock_kernel();
-
sbp->s_flags |= MS_RDONLY;
infp = kzalloc(sizeof(*infp), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!infp) {
printk(KERN_WARNING "vxfs: unable to allocate incore superblock\n");
- unlock_kernel();
return -ENOMEM;
}
@@ -239,7 +231,6 @@ static int vxfs_fill_super(struct super_block *sbp, void *dp, int silent)
goto out_free_ilist;
}
- unlock_kernel();
return 0;
out_free_ilist:
@@ -249,7 +240,6 @@ out_free_ilist:
out:
brelse(bp);
kfree(infp);
- unlock_kernel();
return ret;
}
--
1.7.1
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