From: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
To: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove unused member from nsproxy
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:31:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46FA5F26.2030100@fr.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46FA5B39.1010204@openvz.org>
Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> The nslock spinlock is not used in the kernel at all.
it's also useless now that you have put some RCU rules around it.
right ?
C.
> Remove it.
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
>
> ---
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/init_task.h b/include/linux/init_task.h
> index a3f2541..cae35b6 100644
> --- a/include/linux/init_task.h
> +++ b/include/linux/init_task.h
> @@ -73,7 +73,6 @@ extern struct nsproxy init_nsproxy;
> #define INIT_NSPROXY(nsproxy) { \
> .pid_ns = &init_pid_ns, \
> .count = ATOMIC_INIT(1), \
> - .nslock = __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(nsproxy.nslock), \
> .uts_ns = &init_uts_ns, \
> .mnt_ns = NULL, \
> INIT_NET_NS(net_ns) \
> diff --git a/include/linux/nsproxy.h b/include/linux/nsproxy.h
> index 4d564d8..0e66b57 100644
> --- a/include/linux/nsproxy.h
> +++ b/include/linux/nsproxy.h
> @@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ struct pid_namespace;
> */
> struct nsproxy {
> atomic_t count;
> - spinlock_t nslock;
> struct uts_namespace *uts_ns;
> struct ipc_namespace *ipc_ns;
> struct mnt_namespace *mnt_ns;
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-26 13:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-26 13:14 [PATCH] Remove unused member from nsproxy Pavel Emelyanov
2007-09-26 13:28 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-09-26 13:31 ` Cedric Le Goater [this message]
2007-09-26 13:37 ` Pavel Emelyanov
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