From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: majianpeng Subject: [PATCH] vfs: Remove the unnecessary protect. Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:06:39 +0800 Message-ID: <5163CC0F.2000400@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=GB2312 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel , linux-fsdevel To: Al Viro Return-path: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org After allocating a inode,it don't chain in superblock.At this time,it won't be used by others.So it make no sense to protect there. Signed-off-by: Jianpeng Ma --- fs/inode.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c index f5f7c06..1d7b0dd 100644 --- a/fs/inode.c +++ b/fs/inode.c @@ -906,9 +906,7 @@ struct inode *new_inode_pseudo(struct super_block *sb) struct inode *inode = alloc_inode(sb); if (inode) { - spin_lock(&inode->i_lock); inode->i_state = 0; - spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&inode->i_sb_list); } return inode; -- 1.8.2.rc2.4.g7799588