From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030649AbWJKGJ1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 02:09:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030647AbWJKGJS (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 02:09:18 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:6346 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030645AbWJKGJQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 02:09:16 -0400 From: NeilBrown To: Andrew Morton Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:09:08 +1000 Message-Id: <1061011060908.12435@suse.de> X-face: [Gw_3E*Gng}4rRrKRYotwlE?.2|**#s9D, Peter Zijlstra Cc: Al Viro Subject: [PATCH 001 of 4] Remove lock_key approach to managing nested bd_mutex locks. References: <20061011155522.7915.patches@notabene> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The extra call to get_gendisk is not good. It causes a ->probe and possible module load before it is really appropriate to do this. Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Neil Brown ### Diffstat output ./fs/block_dev.c | 9 --------- 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-) diff .prev/fs/block_dev.c ./fs/block_dev.c --- .prev/fs/block_dev.c 2006-10-11 15:37:05.000000000 +1000 +++ ./fs/block_dev.c 2006-10-11 15:37:10.000000000 +1000 @@ -357,14 +357,10 @@ static int bdev_set(struct inode *inode, static LIST_HEAD(all_bdevs); -static struct lock_class_key bdev_part_lock_key; - struct block_device *bdget(dev_t dev) { struct block_device *bdev; struct inode *inode; - struct gendisk *disk; - int part = 0; inode = iget5_locked(bd_mnt->mnt_sb, hash(dev), bdev_test, bdev_set, &dev); @@ -390,11 +386,6 @@ struct block_device *bdget(dev_t dev) list_add(&bdev->bd_list, &all_bdevs); spin_unlock(&bdev_lock); unlock_new_inode(inode); - mutex_init(&bdev->bd_mutex); - disk = get_gendisk(dev, &part); - if (part) - lockdep_set_class(&bdev->bd_mutex, &bdev_part_lock_key); - put_disk(disk); } return bdev; }