netdev - [PATCH net-next v6 10/11] bonding: remove unwanted lock for bond_store

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Message-ID: <52AA6EE6.2070300@huawei.com>
Date:	Fri, 13 Dec 2013 10:20:22 +0800
From:	Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com>
To:	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>,
	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...hat.com>,
	Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...hat.com>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net-next v6 10/11] bonding: remove unwanted lock for bond_store_primaryxxx()

The bond_select_active_slave() will not release and acquire
bond lock, so it is no need to read the bond lock for them,
and the bond_store_primaryxxx() is already in RTNL, so remove the
unwanted lock.

Suggested-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com>
---
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c
index 75dc4d0..4838a97 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c
@@ -1069,7 +1069,6 @@ static ssize_t bonding_store_primary(struct device *d,
 	if (!rtnl_trylock())
 		return restart_syscall();
 	block_netpoll_tx();
-	read_lock(&bond->lock);
 	write_lock_bh(&bond->curr_slave_lock);
 
 	if (!USES_PRIMARY(bond->params.mode)) {
@@ -1109,7 +1108,6 @@ static ssize_t bonding_store_primary(struct device *d,
 		bond->dev->name, ifname, bond->dev->name);
 out:
 	write_unlock_bh(&bond->curr_slave_lock);
-	read_unlock(&bond->lock);
 	unblock_netpoll_tx();
 	rtnl_unlock();
 
@@ -1157,11 +1155,9 @@ static ssize_t bonding_store_primary_reselect(struct device *d,
 		new_value);
 
 	block_netpoll_tx();
-	read_lock(&bond->lock);
 	write_lock_bh(&bond->curr_slave_lock);
 	bond_select_active_slave(bond);
 	write_unlock_bh(&bond->curr_slave_lock);
-	read_unlock(&bond->lock);
 	unblock_netpoll_tx();
 out:
 	rtnl_unlock();
-- 
1.8.2.1



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