linux-kernel - [PATCH 7/8] fs/inode.c: remove outstanding spin lock prefetch

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Date:	Thu, 27 Sep 2012 20:51:55 +0800
From:	Yan Hong <clouds.yan@...il.com>
To:	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 7/8] fs/inode.c: remove outstanding spin lock prefetch

Do we have particular reason to do this here?

Signed-off-by: Yan Hong <clouds.yan@...il.com>
---
 fs/inode.c |    3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 3a2cd41..e89d30c 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
 #include <linux/fsnotify.h>
 #include <linux/mount.h>
 #include <linux/posix_acl.h>
-#include <linux/prefetch.h>
 #include <linux/buffer_head.h> /* for inode_has_buffers */
 #include <linux/ratelimit.h>
 #include "internal.h"
@@ -919,8 +918,6 @@ struct inode *new_inode(struct super_block *sb)
 {
 	struct inode *inode;
 
-	spin_lock_prefetch(&inode_sb_list_lock);
-
 	inode = alloc_inode(sb);
 	if (inode) {
 		inode->i_state = 0;
-- 
1.7.9.5

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