From: Alexey Dobriyan Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:18:27 +0000 (-0800) Subject: proc: less LOCK operations during lookup X-Git-Tag: v2.6.25-rc1~270 X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4237e0d3de38da640d7c977d68f5f7f1d207a631;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git proc: less LOCK operations during lookup Pseudo-code for lookup effectively is: LOCK kernel LOCK proc_subdir_lock find PDE UNLOCK proc_subdir_lock get inode LOCK proc_subdir_lock goto unlock UNLOCK proc_subdir_lock UNLOCK kernel We can get rid of LOCK/UNLOCK pair after getting inode simply by jumping to unlock_kernel() directly. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/fs/proc/generic.c b/fs/proc/generic.c index 6a2fe5187b6..75cd8d709f7 100644 --- a/fs/proc/generic.c +++ b/fs/proc/generic.c @@ -406,12 +406,12 @@ struct dentry *proc_lookup(struct inode * dir, struct dentry *dentry, struct nam spin_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock); error = -EINVAL; inode = proc_get_inode(dir->i_sb, ino, de); - spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock); - break; + goto out_unlock; } } } spin_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock); +out_unlock: unlock_kernel(); if (inode) {