linux-kernel - [PATCH 19/27] BKL: Remove BKL from hugetlbfs

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Message-Id: <1257156307-24175-20-git-send-email-jblunck@suse.de>
Date:	Mon,  2 Nov 2009 11:04:59 +0100
From:	Jan Blunck <jblunck@...e.de>
To:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jan Blunck <jblunck@...e.de>,
	William Irwin <wli@...omorphy.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>, Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Serge Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 19/27] BKL: Remove BKL from hugetlbfs

BKL is only used in fill_super. It is safe to remove it.

Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@...e.de>
---
 fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c |   12 ++----------
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
index 53be2b9..87a1258 100644
--- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@
 #include <linux/security.h>
 #include <linux/ima.h>
 #include <linux/magic.h>
-#include <linux/smp_lock.h> /* Only for lock_kernel() */
 
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 
@@ -825,7 +824,6 @@ hugetlbfs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
 	struct hugetlbfs_config config;
 	struct hugetlbfs_sb_info *sbinfo;
 
-	lock_kernel();
 	save_mount_options(sb, data);
 
 	config.nr_blocks = -1; /* No limit on size by default */
@@ -835,16 +833,12 @@ hugetlbfs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
 	config.mode = 0755;
 	config.hstate = &default_hstate;
 	ret = hugetlbfs_parse_options(data, &config);
-	if (ret) {
-		unlock_kernel();
+	if (ret)
 		return ret;
-	}
 
 	sbinfo = kmalloc(sizeof(struct hugetlbfs_sb_info), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!sbinfo) {
-		unlock_kernel();
+	if (!sbinfo)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
 	sb->s_fs_info = sbinfo;
 	sbinfo->hstate = config.hstate;
 	spin_lock_init(&sbinfo->stat_lock);
@@ -869,11 +863,9 @@ hugetlbfs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
 		goto out_free;
 	}
 	sb->s_root = root;
-	unlock_kernel();
 	return 0;
 out_free:
 	kfree(sbinfo);
-	unlock_kernel();
 	return -ENOMEM;
 }
 
-- 
1.6.4.2

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